#antidawn

And another one ;-)

I love the moment captured within the picture. This moment of ease, like if gravity vanished. The position of the arm in the middle, moving up, touching the invincible. The street lights, shortly captured, getting distant in the next moment. The closed eyelids. As if everything can be put into a glance, and here the view is turned inwards.

Starting last year, I discovered Burials Antidawn-EP. An atmospheric collection, which can be heared as one piece without disturbing transitions. I fell in love with it. The calmness. The euphoria. As if everything was in it. The state of dreaming, a dream itself. And ease. So it was a perfect fit and my mind connected both the music and the picture.

And the name. Antidawn. What a miracle. For me, it perfectly describes a fight, a hopeless try against the vanishing of the sheltered space of the night where normality is broken and an open space of possibilites is created. Like in the movie "Zwischen uns die Nacht" (see post below), where friendship, nascent love and breaking boundaries of behaviour together are combined, when they break into other peoples houses – which is on the one side breaking the law, but with a view from the protagonist less about stealing then getting into a hidden space, behaving as in a dream, where soleness is celebrated in a quiet and abandoned space. All of it threatened by dawn, ending with the first light.

I thought a long time to create a piece like the one before, but in my mind there was not a fit with letters and pictures, a feasible and fitting combination. In the end, I decided to do something different: Let the picture untouched, and the lettering too. I created a not-yet to abstract last one and put it under the picture, which I cropped to the main part. The lettering partly reminiscents of industrial motifs like a fabric or a chimney of one due which I choose due to the industrial metropolitan vibes London can have (the city Burial comes from) and which might or might not be found in the music or shaped it. However, lettering is also created by feeling and accident so it might be a coincidence I found, liked and therefore chose to keep the letters like they were.

By now, Burial has been making ambient-slanted stuff for as long as (if not longer than) he was a dub, 2-step and garage guy, but there remains a reason why the latter is so much more celebrated. It is simply so much more urgent – Antidawn doesn’t really get close, again.