• Dimensions: 24″x36″
  • Medium description: 5 layers of cut and painted cardstock sheets, mounted on black cardstock with painted silver embellishments.

Made as a gift for our high school band director Chris Weise, based on a piece for wind band of the same name by Frank Ticheli which we played in band class. Created in collaboration with Kimia Zadegan. (April 2014)

The cities depicted are Chicago, New York, Boston, and San Francisco, which were our band director’s favorite cities. The notes in the floral pattern extending to the sky are from the famous Blue Shades clarinet solo, and the birds below the clarinet soloist form the notes of the bass line which accompanies the solo. Blue Shades is currently displayed in McLean High School’s band office.