Last night I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel for online presentation of Cellista’s “Finding San Jose”. Below is the poem I read and played piano for her album and project of the same title. On the panel last night too was the poem’s author, Cellista’s father, Dr. Frank Seeburger, who’d written it for his daughter, Cellista. To me, the poem represents “finding home”, which may not necessarily be a location, but a spot in one’s heart or mind. It can be a “purpose” like art or philosophy. Also, to me, is that sense of a parent seeing the same discovery in their child and reflecting back on when they too “found home”. The panel was teary-eyed to say the least mostly in part to the starring words, music and imagery, but also as result as for the past year many of us on the panel who are artists have been away from their shared homes… the stage.
