As a melancholy teenager, holed up in a room with "pale blinds drawn", I hummed along with Bowie's "Sound & Vision" : "blue blue electric blue that's the colour of my room where I will live, blue blue".In the end, I never did paint any of my rooms in electric blue. And instead I rather became enamored with that pale, simmering 18th century blue. And with those still lifes depicting the gifts of "sound & vision" - in 18th C terms: " the Attributes of Music"," the Attributes of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture"
