Christina Major Oil on Canvas “Jimi” by Christina Major 56 x 66 2025

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Jimi Hendrix
Music is Magic. Magic is Life. When the Power
of love overcomes the love of power the … Read more Words

Jimi Hendrix
Music is Magic. Magic is Life. When the Power
of love overcomes the love of power the world
will know peace. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom
listens. Before you start pointing fingers, make
sure your hands are clean. I think that we honor
ourselves by honoring our past. Music is my religion.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. Don’t use
your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your
fingers. My goal is to be one with the music. I just
dedicate my whole life to this art. Technically,

I’m not a guitar player, all I play is truth and
emotion. All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all.
I just keep it almost naked. And probably the
words are so bland. Imagination is the key to my
lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
What I have to say, I say with my guitar. We want
our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and
see if it can awaken some little thing in their
minds. 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
May I love you away from the evils of today to
the dreams of tomorrow. Heaven has no sorrow.

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
If I live by illusions, you live by excuses



Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She currently resides in North Carolina. Major earned her MFA from Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida and Sweden. Her work is collected both nationally and internationally.

Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. She combines large-scale portrait painting with writing. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition, and the many variables that portraiture deals with.

Major expands the traditional portrait painting by cataloging her memories and thoughts along with the thoughts of the subject by painting under, into, and over the subject in her handwriting. Major’s “hand” is visible both in the brushstroke and in the cursive writing, preserving her identity in a “readable” way both literally and through graphology, or handwriting analysis. See less