About

About this Project

Kerry Hirth - Painter

Kerry Hirth is a visual artist who paints music. She uses her natural ability to associate musical harmony with color to identify and track patterns found in music with colorful, linear, pastel paintings. She believes that music arises from our life experiences, and she integrates text and markings into the musical patterns in her paintings that serve as evidence of the source of music in the many different ways we process, value, and document our experience of the world around us. The music-based patterns she creates reflect stories, landscapes, and a sense of enchantment with the natural world.

To purchase artwork or carpets contact the artist Kerry Hirth at [email protected]
Learn more about Kerry Hirth's work on her artist website at www.kerryhirth.com

Atika - Weaver

Atika lives in the rural countryside near Oued Zem, in Khouribga Province, Morocco. She started making carpets when she was 16. Atika is now 34, with 4 children, and works as a professional weaver. She is committed to preserving the traditional practice of hand weaving and her artworks celebrate her unique heritage.

Ab Amajou - Migrant Network Coordinator

Abderramahnne Amajou is the Migrant Network Coordinator for Slow Food worldwide. he focuses on sustainable business development. A citizen of both Morocco and Italy, he introduced Kerry Hirth's music-based carpet patterns to traditional weavers near the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Inspiration for the Project

The title for this project is taken from the work of W.B. Yeats, in particular, an excerpt from a poem on the Irish myth of Aengus and Edain.

The Harp of Aengus

Edain came out of Midhir's hill, and lay
Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass,
Where time is drowned in odour-laden winds
And Druid moons, and murmuring of boughs,
And sleepy boughs, and boughs where apples made
Of opal and ruhy and pale chrysolite
Awake unsleeping fires; and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had been made wild by love...

W.B. Yeats