The sea inspired by the piano and the piano inspired by the sea. 🎶🌊

Two months ago I was notified of this new video by an artist, Sarper Duman, who I have been following for a long time, not only because I love his piano playing, but also because he lives surrounded by cats that he rescues from the street, takes care of them and gives them a home. They accompany him in every music, in every video he makes and I think in every moment of his life and I understand him because I feel the same way with my kittens.

This song is the presentation of his first album and I really loved it, because he doesn't leave out the cats, there is one present. But on the other hand the scenery she chose for the filming has sea, water, life and that for me is very inspiring. Often the sea, the rain or the sound of water in a water fountain are for me a source of inspiration to paint a picture or to write, whether it is a story, a poem or ideas that I have in mind. Water and music are always for me motivators and inspirers of art.

I watched the scenes in the video, listened to the sweet piano and the combination with the sea took me back to more than twenty years ago, where a particular song inspired the brush strokes of a painting that would become a special gift. My mother's friend was turning 50 and she loved a painting we had in the house, she loved it since she met my mother and they became friends, a painting of the sea.

I only have a photo of that painting, my brother was holding the painting in the garden, I remember him, while I was taking the photo, in broad daylight so that the photo would come out well. It was very big, I think it was about 1.80 metres long and 1 metre high. A picture of the sea with rocks and lots of foam. It was simple, just sea, but the sea is not simple, it is water and therefore a source of life.

While I was painting it I listened again and again to this song, of which, at that moment I looked up what the lyrics meant and I was surprised, because without knowing English or having very bad English it was as if my soul knew what the song said, it coincided with what I wanted to paint, and song and sea were, for me, intimately related.

The difference between one video and the other is that in one there are cats, and in the other there are some kind of beings, I think leaves with hearts that symbolise nature. I wanted them to be cats, but they are leaves... I know, I know, I see cats everywhere.

Both videos and songs are closely related. And both inspire and train memories of that painting that I know is there on that wall where I left it that day. A painting that gave life, joy for this particular person.

On the other hand, it was the first painting I made as a gift and the first very very big one, I remember how every note of this song inspired every brushstroke of oil that I put on the big wood, I remember it very well, it was as if the music was painting through my hands, I think it always does. And the first song is inspiring me to remember that event and this writing. Everything is related to everything. Piano, sea, cats and art... that's how it is.

At that moment the music inspired me every stroke and today it reminds me of them, that's the wonderful thing about art and all kinds of art are intimately related.

Thank you for reading me so far, I send you a big greeting. See you soon.
Amonet.