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david byrne
david byrne (born 14 may 1952) is a scottish-american musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. he was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the american new wave band talking heads. byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. he has received an academy award, a grammy award, a special tony award, and a golden globe award, and he is an inductee to the rock and roll hall of fame as part of talking heads.
The Subject Atlas
A chart of david byrne's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
