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FINAL EDITORIAL PROJECT

The article I chose: https://www.thefader.com/2024/10/31/mount-eeries-impermanent-eternities

Why did I chose this article? Because I'm a fan of Phil Elverum and his music which inspires much of my visual art, along with some of my other favourite bands/artists. I take inspiration from music in my illustrations as much as visual arts, and I like looking into how artists think, their processes, and how the interpret the world. Usually I find what they have to say about their art much more insightful than the art itself, their perspective is invaluable. This article is relevant to Phil's latest album "Night Palace" under one of his many monikers "Mount Eerie", but in the interview he talks about his wider philosophy around nature which is relevant to all of his music.

Keywords/phrases/Visual Cues:

Nature, remoteness, loss, poetic, fire, lightning, wind, fog, nature fetishisation, motherhood, connection between the mundane and the infinite, metaphorical, signifies more than a toothbrush (referring to one of his songs, something signifying more than what it is), mysticism, Impermanence, portal opens to another dimension, air organ (an instrument which produces drone sounds), bonfire, mountains, trees, nature representing ambiguous ideas, acceptance of him using nature as a symbol a lot, washing dishes in the night after putting the kid to bed and looking out the window at the world and burning with internal lighting with magic and fire, huge fire, forest, overgrown, pitting fire against water, and the water is the lesser of the two, eternal glow, eternity of nature as opposed to the impermanence of human life, air organ (what he's describing is a hand pumped harmonium), Crows (in reference to his older album "a crow looked at me", representing his lyrical realism in the face of great tragedy)

Condense the article into a few sentences:

Phil Elverum talks about his new album "Night Palace" in terms of how he uses nature to deliver his metaphorical lyricism which focuses on the impermanence of human existence. This is a return to form from his recent works which dealt in more realism, a reaction/response to the death of his wife. He discusses why he uses nature as a language, and how his past/environment influences that. Phil mentions the fetishisation of naturalistic imagery, and how he has accepted his lyrical vocabulary being full of these glorifications, but still doesn't like the idea of it. While he doesn't connect the eternity of nature as opposed to human impermanence, he does say impermanence is one permanent thing.

What is the core narrative/theme?

The article/interview tells the story of Phil Elverum's relationship to nature, and it does this by covering his past and his present. It states he grew up among the islands between Washington and British Columbia, and how the mountainous, forested environment influenced his lyrical vocabulary. Elverum uses these images to craft his metaphors relating to human impermanence, death, and the totality of the universe in all it's mass in comparison to our mundane existence. But, the article is also about Phil's aversion to the fetishisation of nature (also referring to a previous interview) in his music. He's referring to his complete focus on nature as a consistent lyrical imagry to deliver metaphorical allusions to real things (like how a mountain can represent something monolithic and impassable), he feels like he overuses naturalistic imagery/sounds. Though, he also mentions he has ultimately accepted that it's emblematic of who he is as a person.

ARTIST RESEARCH:

Artist Profile #1

Peter Kyprianou, London Based Illustrator with Greek Cypriot background, works primarily in photoshop and illustrator. He primarily illustrates people, infographics of people, and depictions of mundane, everyday life. He's a commercial illustrator.

Artist Profile #2

Gustav Klimt

Artist Profile #3

Aubrey Beardsley

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