Sarah Beth Hutchison created this painting, “There’s a Crack in Everything,” for a 2012 course taught by Gillian Calder.
It features the words “There’s a Crack in Everything, That’s how the Light Gets in.” The words featured on the painting are quoted from “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen (words that were later used as partial lyrics to the Coldplay song “Up With the Birds”). The use of these lyrics gives an auditory motif to the two-dimensional painting.
The birds they sang, at break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what
Has passed away
Of what is yet to be
Ah the wars they will
Be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect. . .