{"product_id":"my-october-symphony-on-melancholy-making-and-the-beauty-found-within","title":"My October Symphony — On Melancholy, Making, and the Beauty Found Within","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“So much confusion    \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen autumn comes around…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat line alone could be the thesis of this piece. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy October Symphony\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e lives in that unsettled space where seasons shift, certainty erodes, and memory starts editing itself. Inspired directly by the Pet Shop Boys’ song, this work explores the quiet dissonance between what we believed, what we lived, and what time insists on rewriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe surface tells the story first. Warm, weathered tones—like coffee-stained paper and tea-soaked pages—move across the canvas in layers of crackle, abrasion, and softened edges. These are not clean transitions, they’re hesitant, uneven, much like October itself. Metallic mica and pigment anchor the lower portion of the piece, lending weight and gravity, as if holding everything in place while the rest quietly questions its own stability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBeneath encaustic wax, vintage dictionary pages define \u003ci\u003elove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003erealism\u003c\/i\u003e—words that feel solid until you actually try to live inside them. The wax blurs the text just enough to suggest doubt, echoing the lyric:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“How to smile behind a frown?  It’s hard to settle down.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHere, language becomes unreliable. Definitions soften. Meaning slips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt the center, raised from the surface like a pause in the music, is a small reliquary—lifted an inch and a half forward, asking to be noticed. Beneath resin sits a quiet collage and a watchmaker’s glass tube filled with mechanical remnants. Time, dissected and preserved. Motion, stopped. A physical response to the question that repeats throughout the song:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Shall I rewrite or revise my October symphony?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis piece is not about revolution in the loud, heroic sense. It’s about the slower, more personal shift the lyrics hint at—\u003ci\u003e“from revolution to revelation.”\u003c\/i\u003e The realization that some parades are canceled, some victories never happened the way we remember, and that bravery often looks like continuing anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe textures hold that tension. Corrugated elements feel worn but deliberate. Cracks suggest history rather than damage. Nothing here is pristine—and that’s the point. Like October, this work exists in the in-between: reflective but unresolved, nostalgic without being sentimental, melancholic without collapsing into despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“So we’re all drinking as leaves fall to the ground…”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThere’s a quiet acceptance embedded in the palette and materials—a recognition that time moves forward whether we’re ready or not. This is a piece you don’t just look at; you sink into it. The longer you stay, the more it reveals—small shifts in surface, half-hidden words, the subtle weight of memory settling in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy October Symphony\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is about standing in that moment of pause and asking yourself what gets rewritten, what gets remembered, and what finally becomes clear. Perhaps that’s the true revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIZE:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24\" x 36\" x 2\" \u003cem\u003e(61cm x 91.5cm x 5cm)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Care for Encaustic Artwork... \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eEncaustic artwork is created with a combination of beeswax (note for those who are allergic) and damar resin. This art form has existed for centuries, but because of the natural properties of the wax it does require to be displayed out of direct sunlight in a temperature controlled environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"inkogNEATo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550715986177,"sku":"MyOctoberSymphony","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1967\/7697\/files\/MyOctobrerSymphonyVLogo.jpg?v=1769100008","url":"https:\/\/inkogneato.com\/products\/my-october-symphony-on-melancholy-making-and-the-beauty-found-within","provider":"inkogNEATo: Made for attention. Not approval.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}