Once (since cassette demos 1997)

audio awaits at the end of this post

this post is continued from Believer (since cassette demos 1997)

	There’s much flame imagery throughout the 1998 album Since. The final song, Once, alone mentions a fuse, a torch & a spray of lights. But, it was only in overview, when all of the pieces were laid out as a written collection, that a compound thread seemed to show. 

Since session report 1998

It’s that train of thought I had in mind when my art department counterpart commissioned two photographers to separately capture their interpretations of what I expressed as “the life of a flame.” I left it at that, a simple prompt, hoping an overall spirit would be evoked as purely as possible by the artists’ independent imaginations. 

Curiously, both shooters used technically similar cine-camera approaches in their own way, each turning in work that satisfied that sense. However, one personally encapsulated the feeling further by way of their unique, concrete presentation: a rough-hewn, homemade project book using unfinished paper & other raw materials such as ribbon that translated as a distinctive abstract which I could physically feel with my fingertips & absorb from its actualized visual arrangement.  

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