Album Notes

2006 Indian Summer Music Festival Nominee.
The beauty of David’s playing comes from the heart. He uses nature as a starting point for his songs. His music is relaxing and soothing. Take a little vacation from the hustle and bustle of our hectic society and go back in time through “The Legends of Time.”

Thank You- Ed & Elaine Zajdlik, Eileen Whitacre, Robert Wainio & Dan DeClark, and special thanks to Dan Haviland of Sweetgrass Studios for recording and engineering Legends Of Time

All songs written and performed by David Martinka
CD Artwork By Eileen Whitacre
CD produced by Dan Haviland of Sweetgrass Studios and David Martinka of Redbelly Music
Engineered by Dan Haviland of Sweetgrass Studios

ARTIST STATEMENT: Legends Of Time Painting
Eileen Whitacre

When painting, Legends Of Time, I began with a specific theme of native history, desert mirages, and time in action. I imagine traveling through a world anticipating the journey, and wonder at the results that await me. Painting is a very personal mode of spirituality for me. I tend to draw images that relate to my interests in psychology, physical science, and a “fourth dimension“. Because of this my work relates to fantasy and mystical imagery.

Boundaries are marked by the edges of my drawing surface; which could be a canvas or wall installation. Starting with one line at any given point, the majority of the image is a premeditated reaction to the last moment of line in-action. Shadowing, mimicking, repeating, & mirroring are all a part of an organic structure that, in turn, becomes a type of puzzle to be decoded.

Mid-way, a theme begins to take form to reveal abstract sensual images that blend together. Contextually, the images are to be read as living things bound by the laws of nature: DNA, physical systems, etc. Symbols of nature beautifully defined by, the insides and the outsides. The image, therefore, has energy and can morph into elemental conditions found in our environment. The theme is then evoked from the linear image in surrealistic terms. I place key symbols based off of the image by illustrating the characters & the setting to the viewer. Because of this, my work is to be read as a moment in real time.

Symmetry & balance is the final result of my stylization, ending the line off the edge of the canvas. Symmetry, as well, is the foundation of the natural world. I find that my style derives much from an inner passion for science and how aesthetics can be derived from science. I see the canvas much like an experiment in freedom: with constants and variables, created by my own will.
Eileen Whitacre