my name is Harrison Haynes I'm in the
exhibition area 919 proud to be so
you're looking at a grid of six
photographs each or monochrome to a
certain degree but there is a lot of
play of light across the surface of
those individual cushions causing
shadows and other colors to emerge there
are pictures of cushions from leather or
leatherette sofas and those sofas happen
to be all respectively situated in
what's known as a green room where the
band hangs out and gets dressed and has
a beer and sends an email and sits for
hours being bored the titles of the
photographs are simply the names of the
venues so the picture of the red cushion
from Glasgow is titled or on more which
in Scottish means beautiful sound which
I thought was really great as a title
because of the literal translation of
that some of the other titles are are
more oblique like button factory because
the club in Dublin is an old button
factory warehouse tricks centrum is the
one in Antwerp and I don't know what
that means it sounds kind of smutty or
something I don't know and then
subterranean is the club in Chicago and
point F aamir as the club in Paris I
found myself as the drummer in a band
that had a very aggressive touring
schedule for many years and I've always
done music and visual art alternately
it's hard to do them at the same time
but my compulsion at this time was that
I was really itching to make some visual
art but I was on the road all the time
and I didn't really have a studio and I
didn't really have the means to make the
kinds of art that I had been making
prior to that photography was something
I started looking at in a different way
all of a sudden like making images that
would that would stand on their own and
speak for themselves as art rather than
being references for other pieces of art
that I would make in Glasgow I saw these
red cushions that were lit by the stage
lights and there was this kind of
psychedelic pallor and a palette like
where the shadows on a red cushion were
ended up being violet or green because
of the contrasting colors of the stage
lights at that
when I saw that red rippled leatherette
and light passing across it it reminded
me of velázquez Pope Innocent the 10th
where he has this satin cowl the way
that Velasquez painted light reflecting
off that satiny material has always been
a huge inspiration for me and so I
thought here is a moment of light that
is beautiful and strange