An elaborately designed album can celebrate accident as the highest form of creation

Evidence

What impresses most about “A Sky of Honey” is the majesty of its composition. It sounds like the sort of thing Bush has done before, but there’s nothing else in her oeuvre quite so sustained as this. I mean “composition” in the painterly at least as much as the musicianly sense, for “A Sky of Honey” is Bush’s most painterly record: each sound a delicate stroke in a delicately constructed and minutely conceived picture. Van Gogh (“the flowers are melting!”), Chagall, Ernst, as much as Joyce or Bronte, seem to be the guiding hands. The painter’s medium — light — may well be “A Sky of Honey”’s principal preoccupation. The image of a pavement artist’s work destroyed by rain is central to “A Sky of Honey”: “all the colours are running”. Yet no mood of regret or melancholy can last long here; in an instant, Bush is celebrating “the wonderful sunset” that the run colours have become. Ironically for a record so artfully and fastidiously designed, so foreign to rock and jazz’s spontaneity, the message is that the Accident is the pre-eminent form of creation. We are gently urged to revel in the innocence of becoming, to “look at the light… and all the time it’s a changing…”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1079

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in trees/infrastructure and worldbuilding aesthetics — how deliberate construction deliberately courts impermanence and accident as theme. — connects to: A tradition fuses an accident becoming fate with a fate actualizing in its accidents — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1115

Broader Connections

• A tradition fuses an accident becoming fate with a fate actualizing in its accidents #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1115