July 2008 artist: Donovan Foote

"Four Boom Dang"
Drawings, prints and posters
by Donovan Foote

Beginning with an opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, July 11, Noir Art Emporium presents drawings, prints and posters by Donovan Foote. The exhibit continues through Saturday, July 26.




Donovan Foote has always drawn pictures, and, for nearly as long, played music. About five years ago, he decided he could continue to do both of these things satisfactorily or shift his focus and try to be great at one thing.

He chose drawing.

Although he continues to play music occasionally, Donovan no longer read sheet music. This started happening about 10 years ago and since then music continues to grow increasingly abstract — an odd system of patterns, visual cues, and sound.

Recently, while practicing a song from my old college band days, he realized he was remembering the progression for the chorus as "four, boom, dang." He finds it strange that those two sounds and one number would mean anything. For him they represented notes on a bass, which represent sounds, which are part of a song, which tells a story, which conjures up images, which takes place in a whole different world.

The recent drawings, posters, and prints in his show at Noir represent the last two years of daydreams, ideas, songs, and stories.