Bryan Parandes

For Blues and Other Spells

acrylic on canvas

16″ x 20″

2024

Drummer Susie Ibarra is a prolific musician who inspires me with her free expression and involvement in the crossover of music and visual art. “For Blues and Other Spells” is a reference to her drum solo on Lisle Ellis’s “Sucker Punch Requiem, An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat.” Her influence is a reminder of the catharsis and joy found in the process of creation in my own drumming and art.