"Hide and Seek," and "Mountian Pass," were two pieces of art buitl upon the innocence of love, between man and woman. An innocence that as I continue to listen to modern music, or watch the interaction of modern man, is completely lost to them.

It is a pretty sad notion, if I ever heard on.

I can't speak for every nook and cranny of our earthen cities but I can speak on the few I have had the privlage to interact with and their thoughts on what it takes to achieve the "fantasy," described by:

Bobby Darin, Doris Day, Tony Braxton, Babby Face, Jim Croce, Ray Charles, Frank Senatra, the list goes on, from 1973 until....

Well I wish I could say until this very day, but I don't hear it on the radio, I have not seen it in movies. I picked up a comic book just the other day, hoping to find signs of an ancient idea. At least foreign to this present generation.

I think the closest we've come to holding onto the notion of love between man and woman is Fleetwood Mac with their song "Dreams." It takes them a while to get over the slurred language but in the midst of the her drowning, you can find the desire for love from somoen other than herself.

  The black community had denied the sexes for a while now, I suppose the last time I head a really good love song was Bleeding Love, but I could not stand the title and I am sure that's what turned off others as well. "Love on the brain,' is an ok song as well for stolen material.

Why has love become so hard for people to sing about?

Now I did not want to believe that I was living in a bubble so I decided to ask those I know, what songs comes to mind when they see images as the two I have shared, "I have suffocated by now in wating for a response."

How is it that we can not respond to love?

I was really surprised to find that some found "Hide and Seek," to be explicit. and was not excepted in some gallaries. I was having trouble understanding why at first. I could not figure out if the notion of her in a bra hding amoung the trees was too much for our modest society. Then I remembered Victoria Secret, Tyra Banks and so many other woman that have made a name for themselves in the brightest of fourms and no one called them "explicit."

What has changed?

How could an image, virtually innocent by our modern standards be deemed too explicit?

Is it because it protrays a "real,' love, something obtainable and heartfelt by all? Has reality become,, "explicit?"

Death Cab for Cutie's song Soul meets body is one song that arrived nearly eight years ago that is unisexual and did well to present love for everyone and allowed those in a room to have the freedom to love who they chose, spoken well of by Kamala Devi Harris of Oakland CA. (Now she was born in 1964. So she would be familar with most of my initial discussion and with all of her talk about supporting "FREE LOVE," I am sure she too misses the influence derived from songs sung by Sade- By YOUR SIDE and the Sweetest Taboo.

I am one lone artist and I dare say I'd be hard pressed to craft a variety of "love," for our present generation that compliments our classically accepted sense of the word, amoung groups who have determined, "heterosexual," sex to be politically incorrect or plainly more explicit than any other variety of relations between people.

I should not find it odd that many feminsits have taken kindly to my approach on the relations between man and woman. I do though. I have always found it interesting when a feminist asks me to aid her in the cause of the woamn from the stand pioint of "Love from a man," because I was always certain their anger toward "patriacies," would make loving a man superfical at best. Finding sa long as the man can assist in the economic or social security of the woman he is entitled to "love." Any mention outside of this becomes a taint to the 'normal," progressive order devised by such groups.Eliminating the purity found in the word, "love," which true to it's origins suggests, In the midst of sickness, or health, poverty, or wealth, one will be their for the other. A bond that is forged from youthful excursions such as "Hide and Seek," and presented in the whimsical ryhmes of the Mulberry tree.