Wednesday 01222025. Still Thinking About This

The first time I heard this song, it was like an out of body experience. I had never felt so seen or so understood. Part of that was because I was 17 and social media wasn’t quite a thing yet, so there wasn’t the access that there is today. But the other part, the larger part definitely had something to do with being the weird alt black artsy girl in a Virginia suburb whose claim to fame is colonization. That out of body feeling is still so strong, that I have to actually be careful about when I listen to this song. If it comes on shuffle I have to ask myself, “am I ready for an emotional journey to 2009 and back right now??”

The first image is my lastest reaction, and the second was my first. Hard to believe I made that collage 16ish years ago. The techniques are obviously so different, but I see traits that I kept in both. The faces with pieces missing, the dark split backgrounds. This is the first time I’m looking at them side by side. It’s pretty cool.

The song is Empty by Metric