Raincheck (2014)

Waking to rain. Cheek on the windshield.

I made myself promise that this time, I would leave a trail for one to follow. And if I lost myself in logic, I would know a song to sing.

When a heart decides to make or fail - a love, red or pale. The widest wings are given to those who wish to fly towards the sun.

And so I strive to survive this spotted, broken sleep. Thoughts so lost and boundless. Every dream devoid of meaning.

A prophet of human error is all I am. Perhaps a rain-check for thunder?

Because one wipe of sunlight is all I need.

Star-Stretched (2014)

This piece is based off of an Eric Whitacre choral song titled “A Boy and a Girl”, which was written to a poem by Octavio Paz. The piece is such an inspiration to me, and in turn, this piece was extremely easy to make and feel happy with.

Octavio’s poem writes about a boy and a girl, who, laying in the grass give each other kisses, with oranges representing their love. As the poem continues, their oranges become limes - a more complicated flavour. Then, the couple exchange nothing. Silence for silence, as their love continues from under the ground. It’s simply my favourite poem, especially with Eric Whitacre’s choral interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4o9_TbSovg

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A boy and a girl

Their eyes colliding in the night

Mixing like mirrors

In reflection

A boy and a girl

Stretched to imagine the numbers and fractions

Careful contact, fantastic blackness

A boy and a girl

When love is only found above

Their star-stretched hearts

Pace the heights

A boy and a girl

Giving silence for silence

Forever under star-stretched fields

Buried kisses from below

Fall (2014) (Alternating word collaboration with Hyrum)

Empty people share only empty lives
Happiness is a warm emptiness from within
It’s only dangerous if we jump
Only dangerous if we fall
Alone in love, calling out for that feeling
That which we desire
That which is pure to heart
Something isn't everything when your eyes are closed
When you look beyond the fiery void

Seaside (2014) (Alternating word collaboration with Hyrum)

Icy masts cast luminous shadows across a rickety dock
Moonlight sending blues
Singing seas serenade sailors
Hanging from imaginary clouds, suspended
Voluminous vastness vacates itself from darkness
Contrary to the light, we say solemn goodbyes
Amongst fellow fears and frozen thoughts grows imagination
And without our imagination we are stranded
From within the void cast sadness into every soul

Ironhand (2014)

Steady was your iron hand
As it collided with the land you made
A world that a child named
So long ago
Your colours on the canvas made the seas believe
That they were somehow more than a background
But a fabric that held us when the clouds gave no light
In our battered steel ships
Cannons aimed at the creatures below us
Yellow eyes scour the surface
Just tell me when
Oh iron hand
Your faith was a bird, it flew to me too
Through true blacks and blues - a flurry of hues
Oh iron hand
Wet all the lines between men and lands
Melt us back down into one
Oh iron hand
Throw me amongst the sea salt and sand
I am choking on ash in the palm of your hand
But my heart is not void of the virtues you seek
As you scan all the planet for voices that speak
So paint me a picture again
Paint me a picture again

I Don't Know You (2013)

Inspired by the song "Cells Planets" by Chanticleer and my trip to Vancouver with Corazon.

I don't know you, but I like you

Out of the night we were acquianted
The screeches of excitement that came from your mouth
It moved me to wonder if the cells and planets brought you to me
The smallest bug and mightiest stars aligned
For two complete strangers to hug
This imagination, reflected in you and I.
I don't know you, but I miss you
Your name I've already forgotten
as with mine, so have you
But cells, planets, they made us meet
as the snow started melting in our body heat
We were happy
for that night
I don't know you, but I need you
I need you again

David - An Explanation of People (2013)

As much as it would be practical, there is no way to specifically define what shapes an individual. Some people sculpt themselves from the inside out, while others absorb the adventure of life, and have it shape and weather them from the outside. It is a beautiful enigma that makes existence worth living, and understanding the self, as well as other individuals may be the most valuable thing to ever learn.

In most cases, a being is brought into the world as a perfect, stone statue, like the marble that would eventually become Michelangelo’s “David”. The violent and radically unstable storm of life will erode away what a person isn't, and leaves behind a sculpting, unique to only a single mind and body. A person can find themselves through spiritualism or pain whilst it chips away to reveal oneself. Carvings on the skin of the statue, like engraved tattoos define and humanize them. Extroverts, some would call them; sending and receiving the physical essence of life.

There are others – less known for their extravagance and radicalism, but equally human and unique. The introvert is a granite block, with a core so alive it sculpts it sculpts from the inside out. Any onlooker would be bewildered by the simplicity and coldness of the outside, but it takes more than just your eyes to understand such deep changes. Life has trouble forming an opinion on the introvert, and the shield of granite often never breaks under pressure, but deep underneath the surface is a brilliant cave of ingenuity in the shape of everything understood and felt – a personification of the universe just as the extrovert was the universe’s sculpture of human kind.

Inside and outside individuals are formed. Each comes by experiences in different ways, and has a different romance with the elemental emotions and experiences of life. Understanding that block of granite could be filled with churning magma, or an ant hill of complex tunnels and connections is just as important as knowing that a beaten marble statue is alive and beautiful despite its bruises.