Art communicates what language cannot. Symbols > words, but Reality > symbols. However: symbols are a close bridge. Medium = Google slides.
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I like making art that pushes the boundaries of both normal convention, and Consciousness itself. I’ve made a song that progresses through ≈5 genres. A video where 3 rates of Time must co-exist. ANOTHER video featuring segments of 5 different songs, all strung together. I enjoy making multimedia artifacts that will stand the test of Time because they actually SAY something, not just pretend to.
Where do you find inspiration?Much of my art has emerged form my personal grapple with complex PTSD, quite candidly. This has been an absurd existence so far, so just fucking backward and twisted that my only outlet has been moving past systems and paradigms that ever allowed this Hell-on-Earth to exist in the first place. And so, I look to the Heavens (✨) to seek hope for a world that continually poisons itself with its own consent. Music, research, conversation, social media (…the good kind) - anything with SOUL, really.
What would you do with $25,000?First and foremost: I need about 3 different surgeries I’ve had to hold off for over a year now. Sometimes, idk how I’m even still walking. But with the rest? Well, the reason I made the 5-song video was to pitch the “first mental health danceclub”, so there lies my priority. AURUORA = “All of Us Raving Under One Roof to Awaken”, and as I like to say, imagine if NASA and Burning Man shared Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. Or better yet: a social environment specifically engineered for PEACE. Crazy….
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