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A note from the Artist:

The Pandemic has been a seismic shift for all of us, and I am no exception. The forced isolation gave me more time with my own thoughts than I knew what to do with, and at the beginning that was not necessarily a healthy thing… well, because my mind was not a healthy place.

Therapy became my anchor. My response to the classic question, “Why are you here?” was, “Well, I’m an artist and I’ve stopped making art.” I had completed my Master of Music and was riddled with more insecurity than ever before, despite being more qualified than at any other point in my life thus far.

A large breakthrough began to emerge when I reconnected with the music I had written throughout the hardest times of my life. I began to realize that the emotions I was never allowed to express in the moment because of how dangerous they felt were put directly into my songwriting. The language was often coded…but the emotions were explosive. As I started to see puzzle pieces of understanding begin to form, a larger pattern started to emerge. My music began to teach me about myself and reveal to me the things I wasn’t cognizant of in the moment of its writing.

One day I had the thought to pull out The Hero’s Journey, a narrative archetype in which the hero goes off on an adventure, experiences a series of trials, overcomes a decisive crisis, and eventually comes home transformed and empowered. Well, hot damn if my songs didn’t just fit immediately into that arc! I had been on my hero’s quest this entire time and had had no idea. And hot damn if in time I didn’t see myself  eventually come home to MYSELF transformed and empowered. The fascinating thing for me was that much of that empowerment came from finally letting go…by UN-learning and rediscovering what had been inside me the whole time.