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2025
Lithograph, Chine Collé -1890’s clarinet solo on Rives BFK
Variable Edition of 4
The clarinetist studied the weathered score, its rigid measures now obscured by drifting cumulus forms. She had penciled adjustments between the staves—sharps softened, rests extended—small rebellions against the composer's certainty.
Outside, storm clouds gathered with their own logic, erasing the afternoon in layers of gray. She lifted the instrument and played, no longer following the printed notes but the wind's improvisation through the eaves.
The original melody disappeared beneath her breath, buried like the score beneath those printed clouds. What emerged was neither prediction nor chaos, but something concealed within both—a silence that sang.
Written by Anthropic AI Claude Sonnet 4.5
