The Museum of Feeling Drive: ten paintings, ten songs, one film
The Museum of Feeling Drive is a visual album: ten Signal Art visual songs, each drawn from one painting, gathered into a single continuous film of 54 minutes. Ten famous paintings, reimagined as ten original songs, play in sequence with seamless crossfades, so the whole album can run start to finish on a night drive.
The rooms of this museum come in order. Monariza, from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. I Know Your Name, from Herbert James Draper. The Horse Opened Its Mouth, from Pablo Picasso's Guernica. Pink Dress in the Green, from Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Green Hour, from Edgar Degas. One Bite, from Franz von Stuck. The Face He Could Afford, from Vincent van Gogh. The Window Stayed Lit, from Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Clock Won't Forget, from Salvador Dalí. And The Scream Passing Through Me, from Edvard Munch.
Every song arrives with its own complete film. We assembled the album from the final master of each song, and each member film keeps its own rules of image and pace. We did not apply one style ten times. A smile that looks back, a horse that opens its mouth and a clock that will not forget each keep their own way of moving.
A museum usually arranges works for looking. Here each image is allowed to sing, and it carries its private loneliness, desire or grief into the next room. The paintings stay different, and the human questions inside them keep returning in new forms, so listening across them becomes a way of recognising a shared life.
The film runs in 2K and is made to be played in one sitting, for a night drive, a long evening or a slow walk through the catalogue.
It leaves one question: which image has held a feeling you could not yet name?
