 "Take Me to the River"digital collage by Mick Mather
"Take Me to the River"digital collage by Mick MatherLabels: addition, Art Everyday by Mick Mather, breaking news, digital collage, layers, plug-in filters, Secret Visual Laboratory, subtraction, super secret array
     
     
 
   
    
  
  
4 Comments:
It's not the devil, sitting by the river!
hpy:
No, Hélène, it's not the devil. This piece is connected to the great R&B hit, "Take Me To The River" by Al Green, that was revived a second time by Talking Heads during the punk/new wave era. The song is about teenage love, how much it hurts and the fact that, hard as it is to love and lose, there are no regrets. Some see the lyric "take me to the river, wash me down" as a thought of suicide by the unrequited suitor. It is actually a prayer asking for the pain to be removed, to wipe away every tear.
Oh, I love that song, and I remembered it was also performed by Andrew Strong in the movie Commitments, but sadly I couldn't find the version on Youtube.
So, you have to do with Strong's version of this other song.
Your pic is biblical, somehow. Maybe the light does it?
susupetal:
Great Googlee Mooglee but that Al Green can make you wanna git up an' dance! Thanks for linking both songs, Susu, it made my afternoon. :D
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