folk music

forest fires

broken social scene

fasnacht

uncaged

home ice advantage

infographics

jerry's records

solothurner festival

saints

hockey night in pittsburgh

 

nine dreams

yellow

phantasmagoria

two portraits

headdresses

black & white photography

 

four studies

illustration

 

contact

resume

 

 

© 2009 Kate Rosendale

A series of watercolor paintings representing the way American folk music has been reinterpreted since the time it was first recorded. Each canvas focuses on a single song; each horizontal line is one cover of the song (While researching this project, I found that John Henry has been covered the most times and Sugar Baby the least.) and the vertical lines show influence (documented or perceived) between older and newer versions. Colors show how the song spans across different genres. Each gramophone box plays selected versions of the song it relates to.

From left to right: the songs C.C. Rider, In the Pines, Stagger Lee, and Sugar Baby.