The collection of piano pieces that comprise this work can be described as muralistic — muralistic in the sense that they necessitate broad swaths of space to exist, and feature myriad landscapes and a multitude of narratives contained within a larger whole. This Album Leaf owes its due to the inspired iconographic universe of David Alfaro Siqueiros' work. I wanted to capture elements of color, movement, and conflict explicitly investigated by this illustrious and fascinating Mexican painter. The title is taken from a poem by José Zorrilla which, a hundred years before Siqueiros' time, made an early correlation between the idea of Mexican nationality and intimacy with death.

View 'Cantemos hoy, mañana moriremos' : Album Leaf for David Alfaro Siqueiros in the digital garden.