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Immersed in Inspiration - Roswell, New Mexico

I've had to pinch myself a lot recently thanks to a recent performance I was invited to give in tiny-in-size, but not tiny-in-spirit Roswell, New Mexico.  This was a second time for me performing as part of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art's Piano Series. The first time I ventured out there about a year and a half ago, I arrived in the dusty, small, alien and UFO laden town wondering how it was all going to go. The minute I stepped into the museum for the first time I realized I was in the perfect place for me. This art museum is more a welcoming collection than it is a stuffy museum. Offered as a "salon hang," a style of display that was popular in 17th century France, everywhere you look there is art of different mediums...sculptures, paintings, dioramas, furniture...mammoth size in the middle of a room, hanging from the ceiling, tucked in corners. Paintings aren't necessarily given a lot of space in which to reside. They are cozied up to others, sometim...

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