#ihopethismakessenseandihaventjustrambledincoherently

[tangledarts]

When I was younger, about 10 years ago, there was a snow day. School was cancelled on the day that I had to hand in my still unfinished (not even started) geography homework. So instead of school, me and a friend spent all day (legit like 12 hours) playing Minecraft. School was cancelled again the next day. And the day after that. We had absolutely no worries at all beyond what wood to use for our base. Despite that though, in the real world, the snow was actually pretty bad. We couldn’t really leave the house cus the ice froze the road leading out of the estate and the salt trucks didn’t really come our way. And everyone who could get out had bought every loaf of bread and pint of milk in a 10 mile radius anyway so for a while we were stuck in the house working out if we could eat the tin of Tesco value curry sauce that had expired in 2007.

This may not seem particularly relevant to the piece but I was thinking about it recently… how the world (or my world at least) had come to a standstill. There was suffering and people were risking their safety to get to work, get food, or find child minders etc… but I was fine. I was safe. I was just playing Minecraft with my friend. I was happy. That’s what was in my mind when making this. The notion of the world ending but still just sitting there like it will all be back to normal soon. That desire to just kick back and wait for things to get better… to be able to ignore it all. I wish things could still work like that. But that life now only exists in fuzzy memories…

But this guy… that’s what this guy is doing. playing his music. Trying to get through it. A glimmer of positivity in a uncanny world… accepting that things have just… ended… maybe they’ll get better if he just… keeps going… but for now, there is happiness only in his fading memories…

My art isn’t perfect but I’m happy with this. I’m proud of the style, the music and the editing. It’s not much but… I like it 🧡