25/4/24: This is back here, now that Skull Hill Recordings closed. Should've posted it a lot sooner honestly, sorry about that.
Description:
The idea of this project is to portray a middle-ground between nature and civilization -- structures like old bridges that are man-made but reside outside of any cities or towns; the side of the road where plants grow, but man-made debris is also strewn about; a solitary hilltop at night where one can see city lights far off in the distance; even just watching things happen outside while sitting in your house; the atmosphere of things like this, is what I want to portray with this project. Without nature, one only gets the corrupted ways of mankind, lacking the beauty that lies outside of man's sinful, close-minded ways. However, without civilization, one misses the higher, divine calling written in the hearts of mankind, thus lacking direction and higher purpose. Many of Jesus' teachings were aimed at people who lived in civilized society, but Jesus also spent a lot of time in the wilderness. In ancient Israel, there were prophets who spoke in the cities, but there were also loners living in the desert, teaching whoever was interested in listening to them. I want to portray similar ideas through this project, both because I just find it interesting on an artistic/aesthetic level, and also because I see far too many people who make idols of nature or civilization in their lives (I was VERY guilty of this in the old days...) and I want to reach out to them (being careful, of course, not to inadvertently make another idol of the artistic ideas I'm presenting here, merely replacing one idol with another, but rather using these ideas as a tool to reflect the teachings of the Holy Trinity.)
By the way, if you're wondering, the small text on the artwork doesn't actually say anything -- it's just unicode symbols and numbers that I arranged for artistic effect.
credits
released May 3, 2019
Nocturnal Iridescence - Programming, Field Recordings, Artwork / Photograph
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