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Shard IV: A piece for piano and tenor sax (with a second tenor sax that occasionally adds a note here and there).
When I saw the great photo by Esa Riutta (https://pixabay.com/photos/ice-shard-melting-sky-winter-3454060/), what my mind actually saw was the shape of a geisha. Its melting away added an idea of nostalgia and the longing for things long gone.
I decided to highlight my vision by mirroring the ice shard with the picture of an actual geisha. The picture I chose was from "Two Geisha" by Chōbunsai Eishi (ca. 1792, one sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper; Metropolitan Museum of Art; public domain; https://archive.org/details/mma_two_geisha_56824, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56824).