“Tune in.”
(This may or may not actually be in the final product, it’s just a framework of the overall mood/concept.)
If someone says their work is about “money”, what specifically are they saying about money? Put that into 1 line or put down whatever comes to mind. What’s your point of view on that thing? Or, if this helps: through everything you’ve done, what have you learned about it? (This isn’t final by any means, just something to help you brainstorm.)
| Theme | Message |
|---|---|
| Love | Love is the thread that ties us all together. It motivates everything we do, and its absence is the only thing we fear. It is created from inside, it is a choice, it is an energy and a point of view available in every moment; even in the worst of them. |
| Spirituality | My spirituality is my spine. My Spiritual Identity is the reason I am alive today. I am here from before time, so anything that I am in time exists in contribution to my greater whole. My Greater Self is always expanding, like a galaxy, so I’m grateful for the hard times that help me Grow. Growth is the Goal. |
| Nature | All my guides come from Nature. From the Fairies I saw at 5, to the Trees who see me deeper than any human ever has. Nature is family. Nature is Home. |
| Sex | Sex is reserved for the lucky. Sex is reserved for the Loving. Sex is a ceremony. Bliss is our Soul’s resting state. Orgasm is going home, Climax is Creation story. |
| Self-Love | If my Self is my Spirit, I’m effortless to Love. I Am love. The process of remembering and shedding (forgetting) who I am not is what my life is about, or at least what I’m into right now. It makes it easier to exist, when I know that everything I am is all right. |
| Transition | Transitioning was my one way ticket to survival. I could no longer ask myself to hold so much energy in such a small, soft body. Transition is re-parenting myself, transition is living two lives in one lifetime, transition is privilege, transition is wisdom, transition is transcending the rules and living my Truth. |
| (Feel free to add more!) |
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If your music were a colour, what colour would it be and why? | Mustard yellow, because it’s warm and natural; the colour of the summer sunset, the autumn leaves, the winter’s fire and the spring’s bursting bulbs. It wraps you up and holds you without asking that you change. |
| Whose work, outside of music, do you really admire? What do you admire about them/their work? | Ai Wiewie’s Sunflower Seeds (2008, Tate Modern) and Olafur Eliasson’s the weather project (2003, Tate Modern) come to mind ~ |
They helped me to perceive things that I previously took for granted in a different way.
Their work speaks to broader social issues (human rights, the climate crisis) using the scaling of natural elements within the unusual setting of a museum to open the viewers’ minds to awe, wonder, and spontaneous curiosity. This openness creates a receptive ground for the artists’ messages to be received, felt, and integrated. | | Going all the way back, what are some defining moments/experiences in your life? Why? (example: for me, going to the library when I was a kid → helped me see that there were worlds outside my own → and from me understanding that this was a defining experience, I know what’s important to me as an adult) | Seeing my aunts on stage. Seeing my family all singing together. Watching my family all do accents together while quoting their parents. Theatrics and harmonies.
These are defining moments in my life because when I think of home, I think of music. I think of my dad grooving and dancing in the kitchen while he makes us dinner. I think of him playing his one piano composition, “Fresh Breakfast” on the grand piano in the living room…it felt melancholy yet hopeful, and it felt like he was creating magic with his finger tips. Who was this side of my dad I had never been able to see before? I would watch him from this perch in the brick wall and he wouldn’t see me. He felt vulnerable and soft, yet stronger than ever in his ability to sit in his emotion, to express it, put it in front of himself and not turn away. | | What are 5 random favorite things? Just close your eyes and think about 5 things that just bring you absolute, unbridled joy. | - puppies
“I don’t got nothing to do but waste time watching our spontaneity. We don’t nothing to do but shine; I’ll keep on shining til my light’s out” comes to mind; from Lucidity off my first album “Medicines” …I feel like that sums up my ethos and what I’ve been exploring above. But it’s not my favorite song, per se.
“This one time I wandered out into the air, and I found it there, my spirit there, I found it way beyond all the perfect prisons, finally I could breathe. In green leaves I can breathe, in green leaves I can breathe. Breathe deeper with me, loved ones, deep as ancient trees. I need you. We need you to fulfill the Prophecy of the Morning Dew.” prolly my fave :3
Keywords: Peaceful, relaxed, calm.
Can you expand on that? Because let’s say we were to focus on that as a vibe. We could just write something that feels like a creative meditation, kick off the museum with nice relaxing words. What do you feel like is missing? It’s probably not a keyword. It’s probably your message.