Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival 2020

A wonderful opportunity for the artist, to submit a poster to the well established and world renowned jazz festival, that she joyously supported for many years, with friends and family.

This poster shows how we remained on 'Silent shores' in 2020; the year of Corona, where there were longer periods of social withdrawal, on one hand proving a personal challenge to one and many but also providing us the chance to reflect on our past expressions and experiences; both musically and beyond.

Without constant external stimulations of new input, it was a time to look inward and to reflect on what we had observed thus far through the many sights and sounds. By referring to our memories, without additional sensory input, we can enable deeper forms intellectualisations, thoughts and reductions with our increased self-reflections. In yoga Pratyahara is a form of discipline of practice involving sensory withdrawal.

This poster comes from the artist's rich appreciation and traditions of world music and movement. As a yogini, artist and technologist, she offers a meditator on the shores of lake Geneve, reflecting, internalising and vibrantly expressing, through a myriad of energy channels, whilst having invoked the root chakra, channelling all energies from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, with special focus on alignment of the vertebrae in upright (wo)man. By straightening the back through yogic practice, creating space between bones and discs, in the vertebral column, freeing the nerves of any blockages and compression, thereby freeing the mind, with deep conscious breathing, achieving deeper sensory perception, knowledge of self and further and freedoms, allowing new creativities to flow...inducing mellow and ecstatic mood altering moments, catapaulting oneself into other planes of nether and yonder realms.