🎹 Hidden Melody
She turned a corner she hadn't planned to turn.
Inspired by the Song “Moon River,” by The Sweetgreen. I recommend that you listen to it in the background.
Behind The Story
All the stories here begin with a song; its lyrics, its mood, the feeling it carries. The premise is mostly the same each time: What if life were a movie? What scene, what moment, would best fit this song?
Moon River is such a classic. Its melody first captured my heart with strings of longing and bittersweet heartache, the kind that reminds you that you are indeed alive, that through the years, through the scars, you have lived.
The idea that I have been fortunate enough to love has consoled me, kept me hopeful, in every pursuit of love I’ve ever known. This particular version, the jazzy one by Sweet Green, brought me there. To a place where longing finds company in the past, the present, and the future all at once.
I often find myself reminiscing on the what-ifs and could-have-beens. It’s a fine line, I know. But it can’t be helped when something moves you that way, plays your inner chords, connects you beyond time and this life.
You could say I was simply reveling in the moment, in the scene with myself like a daydream, drifting, hoping to run into someone I would, without a doubt, be happy to see again.
On the Visual Process
I wanted this piece to feel like a held breath.
The crowd around Lucy is mostly faceless. Heads, shoulders, the suggestion of someone there, but never quite people. Only what she recognizes comes into focus.
His hands. His face. Her own body, finally visible to him from above the crowd. The only color in the room.
Everything else softens at the edges, the way memory blurs the edges of a room when you’re looking too hard at one thing.
Some songs only finish in the room they were started in.
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💭 A Question for You
Has a song ever returned you to a person you thought you'd let go?