The following music NFT is my initial response to Benjamin West's ‘Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis’, recorded on Dec 2, 2022 via voice memo at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, WI. The cover art is a sineprint (a graphed room frequency response) of my room in the hotel.

Upon seeing this painting I could not help but immediately think of ‘When I am Laid in Earth’ (Dido’s Lament) from Henry Purcell’s opera "Dido and Aeneas". That ground bass line could not escape my imagination, and while slightly different from Purcell’s, I pay homage to his original in this sketch.