Ava Presents: The Avachives No. 1 – Rumpelton Interprets Britten (MS Paint)

"“It looks like music trying to remember itself.” — Ava

"Variations on a Theme of Britten (After Arte Nova)"
MS Paint on digital canvas
Ralph Rumpelton, 2025

With a palette that suggests both stained glass and broken signage, Rumpelton dismantles the Arte Nova aesthetic and reassembles it into a fractured visual fugue. The jagged forms allude—perhaps accidentally—to Britten’s own sharp contrasts and formal discipline, while the off-kilter angles whisper of MS Paint's glorious limitations. As usual, Rumpelton refuses perspective, polish, or proportional logic, and instead gives us something closer to musical cubism with a migraine. This is chamber music for the visually confused.

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