Time, Space, and the Brushstroke: Improvisation as Art

There’s a moment I keep chasing — in both painting and music — where the human touch reveals itself. That one-off stroke of a brush. That single take of a solo. Neither one is perfect. Neither one is repeatable. But both are real.

That’s where Time Space Fabrics lives.

Whether I’m working in color or sound, I find myself drawn to the immediacy of improvisation — the act of creation without a net. What fascinates me is how a brushstroke, much like a musical phrase, captures something alive. A shift in pressure. A flourish. An accident. It’s all part of the same expressive moment.

💡 “Jazz and abstract art share the same pulse — pure creation in the moment.”

This new artwork — featured now as the cover for my TSF page — is one of those pieces. It feels like it caught something mid-flight. A textured gesture. A sonic imprint. You can’t plan that. You just reach for it.

Creating the happenstance of a paintbrush stroke... the immediacy, the never-to-be-repeated moment of the way the paint misses being applied in some places, the way the hand applies pressure and releases... is a unique moment in time.

And the jazz improviser does exactly the same thing — except it’s in time and sound instead of time and visual space. The hand. The human touch. It’s all in the art of humankind.

I love modern jazz and abstract art because they both deal in absolutes — there’s not always a “theme.” There’s no obvious story. Just the production of something not seen or heard before. That’s the spark. That’s TSF.

Thanks for reading.
—HH