I have released this work to coincide with the upcoming celebration of musician and composer Leonard Bernstein whose Musical compositions will be performed this fall at London Barbican by resident London Symphony Orchestra, to celebrate his 100^thbirthday.

Attached to this document is an illustration of the twelve-panel collage along with some additional information on this artwork.

Nathaniel - “In all honesty prior to creating this piece of work I had known very little about Leonard Bernstein, totally oblivious to his stature, accolades and accomplishments. My only encounter of Bernstein being a few portrait images I came across a few years back.

I obtained two or three photographs while building a personal archive of images intended only as creative references. During this process there were something particularly special about these Bernstein images, possibly the mixture of emotions he expressed through his facial and bodily language, feelings such as thought, discomfort, passion, pleasure and or intimacy.

These images simply embodied the phrase ‘a picture could say a thousand words’. I felt compelled, so I began curating.

When creating this work my aim was not so much to simply showcase ones creative ability but to create the right environment that would highlight and compliment the true beauty and essence of the image, and reflect how best how I felt towards this image of him through this illustration. A dialogue between Man and Creator”

From conception and during the process of this creation I tried to understand the significant role a conductor plays in the orchestra and what this truly meant. One art panel turned into thirteen.

As time revealed key characteristics and attributes required to carry out a title as conductor, and the responsibilities such as trust, to preserve, sustain, nurture and develop whom and what you have been entrusted.

As these attributes were revealed over time it was becoming evidently clear that what I so admired in observation of the Bernstein image was the weight of responsibility that roles and positions of significance brings to one entrusted to maintain what is deemed pleasing in His sigh, and to deliver to the current generation, less they forget.

I admit that at the time of conception ones youth would not have done this work any justice. Time would refine who I would become as an artist and fundamentally what I wanted to communicate through my work, and only now would I then be able to deliver a piece of work that could celebrate such an individual for such a time as this.

Yours sincerely

Nathaniel McCarthy “

NATHANIEL MCCARTHY ARTWORK 

“A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MAN AND CREATOR”