"I studied cello at U.C.L.A. with Cesare Pascarella of the Roth Quartet. When I write music into tree paintings, I often duplicate base clef cello exercises, by Justus Johann Dotzauer (1783–1860), compositions that I played for years. When I hand-copy these bars into a painting, I feel the notes in the fingers of my left hand, and I hear the music. This low-pitched melody sounds like wind singing through timberline trees."
