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Malcolm Watson meets "Malcolm Watson" |
When
Two Living Legacies Collide
Jeff Tritel and Malcolm Watson have both been chosen
as Living Legacies in the Art, Education and Humanity Cornerstone of Solution. An
encounter betwen two Living Legacies can create powerful synergies.
Jeff Tritel has been sculpting for 40 years. He is familiar with the
feeling of being inspired by images that he can’t wait to incorporate into his
limited edition bronze sculpture. But when he was first introduced to the spritely,
magical, barefoot violinist Malcolm Watson, his fingers literally itched to capture Watson
in wax.
Tritel uses sculpting in wax as a first step to creating a bronze
sculpture. Occasionally it is time consuming finding the figure and arriving at a
sculpturally satisfying image but this time it was different. He could feel the
music in his head and it communicated the form to his fingers. The wax pattern for
the bronze came together very quickly. “Malcolm Watson” the sculpture was
born.
Malcolm Watson is called the “barefoot violinist” because as he
weaves his magical musical spell with his amplified violin he dances and leaps in time to
the music, smiling his beautiful impish smile, prancing to the pizzicatos and reaching
directly into the hearts of his audience to fan the flames of joy. Malcolm has
melted the frozen hearts of prison inmates and reached into the darkness of an autistic
child’s life to bring connection and responsiveness that had never been there.
Jeff expresses his response to Malcolm with these words,” After
driving 45 minutes over and around nauseating hairpin mountain curves to get to a tiny
restaurant lost 40 years in time, I was wondering if this invitation was going to be worth
the trouble. We were funneled past an order window into a funky hippie-esque reading
and game room and led into an unlevel, mostly weed strewn garden. There, dressed in
white evening attire and bare feet stood Malcolm, smoking from a small clay pipe and
sporting an expression straight out of a fairy tale.
As he made final adjustments to his violin and amplification system there was
only a hint of what was yet to come. Music was attached to his feet and as he played
he jumped and gyrated like a slightly overgrown Rumplestiltskin. The garden bloomed,
the breeze came to listen and the trees beyond the fence danced in delight.
Two hours passed as mere minutes and as I came out of enchantment I felt as
though I’d come as close to the magical fairie realms as I was ever to be.
Malcolm Watson and Jeff Tritel are both Living Legacies with the World Legacy
Project. A Living Legacy is an individual who is consciously creating their Legacy
for the world today as well as generations to come. The WLP is a global
gathering of individuals, who want to live their legacy and support making a world a we
want to run to, not from! Focused on the Four Cornerstones of Solution,
Innovative Business and Technology, Science and Health, Art, Education and Humanity and
Environment and Eco Development, the World Legacy Project also has another featured
program, the What’s Next Program. The What’s Next program looks at
the cutting edge ideas and innovations of solution.
Here you have a chance to preview and pre order “Malcolm Watson, the
sculpture."
The realm of the fairies is seldom available to the average person.
With Malcolm Watson’s magical music and the “captured magic” of Jeff
Tritel’s sculpture one can do more than dip a toe into this world. You can own
a portal that will transport you whenever you wish. |
