I am currently working on an EP. The idea came to me pretty swiftly one night I was up late about a week ago. I’m not sure what happened or even what inspired it. Sometimes my ideas flow to me so smoothly that I have trouble claiming the work as “mine”, although it is my hands that create it. I feel like what I do is transmute energy and sometimes that is expressed through my art. The whole process feels somewhat impersonal yet incredibly personal and vulnerable at the same time.

How did the EP come about and does it have a name?

Yes, it sort of named itself. I got the name, the title of 6 tracks, and the whole story to the EP almost all at once. I got started that same night working on the tracks and was able to record 2 demos. The next day, I recorded the third track (which is currently my favorite) and later that same day I recorded the fourth track.

I think I might’ve jinxed myself, I was on a roll and was thinking that I was going to be able to share the EP with the rest of the world sooner rather than later, but the last two tracks have been a bit more difficult to find the sound of. I’m not sure of others creative process when it comes to making music, but I definitely was not expecting to have the titles and “mood” of the song before I even began recording the song. It’s been an interesting journey/experiment to say the least. The whole vibe of the EP is about the afterlife, a reminder that what we now see as giant mountains are in fact mole hills in the grand view. The feelings that overcame me when I was receiving this idea was that of joy and uncontainable excitement, so it was important to…seal that feeling into the sound…there’s probably a better way to explain that…

I’m also working on a painting that will probably see the light of day before the EP- a terrifying painting. Well, it is currently in a terrifying state. I would share a photo of it, but dear reader, I wouldn’t want you to lose sleep tonight. I wanted to finish this particular painting (which is a bit uncanny due to weird proportions):

(charcoal, india ink, and acrylic on 36×48 canvas)

Well..let’s just say it still has a way to go. I’m working on this painting tonight and trying something I’ve never done before. I plan to throw a whole bunch of shit on it and pass a few brushstrokes, double up my ego and dare call it “finished”, haha.

This reminds me of a stop-motion project I did for Drawing II, I ended up losing the USB that contained the video and all the images. I might have to revisit this form of stop-motion at some point this year. Here is my darling, creepy boy, Desolate Tate:

(charcoal and india ink on 24×30 charcoal paper)

I’m in the mood to ramble a bit, so I apologize for the long post. Lately I’ve been feeling very creatively ON. Making music and being inspired by creators I listened to growing up and others I have found during my journey, has been a very good thing for me.

I recently discovered Brutalismus 3000:

…Thought I had it in me to ramble on this post but honestly, this is about all I want to share for now. Working on EP, working on creepy portrait painting, being a wild-card creative-powerhouse as usual. Just a madwoman, really.

(P.S. I know the website is still messy, I’ve avoided my art laptop all week long. I’ll slowly get things together, I don’t want to rush the process.)