Inside pianist and composer Alexander Schwarzkopf’s home studio, a grand piano sits in a room surrounded by art.
To one side of the wall is a large mural of an abstract piano made of black angular lines and squiggles, with splashes of colorful mountains and pine trees.
The image represents “the full spectrum of possibility realized,” said Schwarzkopf, who continues to add to the mural. “There’s just this thing with realism and depicting objects and depicting things—I’m not interested in it,” he said. “I’m pulling between these two worlds. My fascination with geometric shapes has been a lifelong love. I always loved the work of the cubists and the expressionists.”…