Feb 5, 2024
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Sycamore 🍁
I'm writing this as a storm blows outside, and at this point the high winds have removed almost all of the leaves from the trees. I want to hold on to them longer and I guess this is how I'm doing that.
I always loved playing with these seeds as a child, which I knew only as helicopters. I'm sure at the time I also knew what an actual helicopter was, but having no experience with them, these whirling seeds were my primary definition...
I love the reddish colours the seeds and leaves turn. My primary point of study for these was a small bunch of them which got trapped in the car windscreen wipers on the way back from the woods, and which were added to my box of autumn treasures. It's mostly chestnuts and acorns, there are a few other things like this too, but most of the more delicate items get preserved in other ways. I have a big collection of photos, scans and pressed leaves from over the years - I'm glad to be finally making better use of those by making more autumn art.
🦉I'll see you in the trees🦉
Sycamores are so cool. Their bark peels off, revealing this smooth white bark underneath.
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“Billie Holiday named him as her favourite singer and Madonna claims he’s the only vocalist who ever made her cry – how’s that for endurance? Scott was born 78 years ago with a hormonal deficiency that denied him puberty and left with a voice that is frequently mistaken for a woman’s. Betwixt nature and craft, he developed into a yearning, subtly rhythmic balladeer whose high register casts a heady spell – the ethereal counterpart to the low, chocolaty pulse of baritones such as Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. Scott has suffered more than the jazzman’s usual share of pain, neglect and betrayal, but in his eighth decade he is doing some of his best work, recorded at last with care and respect, his voice still strong despite a plaintive crack Holiday would surely understand.”
/ From the November 2003 “American Music” issue of Vanity Fair magazine /
Born on this day 100 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio: haunting jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott aka Little Jimmy Scott (James Victor Scott, 17 July 1925 – 12 June 2014). I was privileged to see the unearthly Scott perform several times in London in the 2000s and it was always a powerful experience. (And like Madonna, he made me cry more than once! Scott makes a cameo appearance in the video for Madonna’s 1994 single “Secret”). For anyone unfamiliar with Scott’s work, the 1962 album Falling in Love is Wonderful (widely regarded as his magnum opus) is a good place to start. And for anyone curious about learning more about Scott’s story, seek out the excellent 2002 biography Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott by David Ritz. David Lynch aficionados already know Scott: he crooned the eerie ballad “Sycamore Trees” against a red velvet curtain in the final episode of season two of Twin Peaks in 1991 (as in: the final episode of Twin Peaks until Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017).
