i tried to draw where i felt like each track took me. to me the overarching vibe of the album is sort of dreamlike and pensive, without direct heavy emotion, but with the kind of back burner feeling of there being a lot to tap into if you chose to but not needing to right now. that was the mood i really wanted to put into these as i went.

i didnt set out intending to draw the same character every time, but something about the shape language of this rabbit lent itself well to being the indistinct idea of a specific person, but like, not specifically any person, if that makes any sense.

something i found myself feeling or vaguely reliving with each of these was this sense of waiting. not of exercising patience actively but of just kind of passively enjoying the passage of time itself in the way that some places lend themselves well to. i think there's something about being anonymous but not intrusive that comprises a big chunk of this. i can't say i like waiting at bus stops in real life but the idea of being a place, and soon you'll be somewhere else, and you could be anyone, and the city just goes by around you like the clockwork inside a great big organism...

well, i dont really know how to draw a piano being closed, but i did my best in 2 or 3 minutes, and here i am telling you what it's supposed to be anyway so it doesn't really matter how well it reads alone. ive seen plenty of art of characters playing pianos - love it - but i don't think ive ever seen art of the moment after you decide to be done practicing, when the music is still in your head and the ghosts of the movements are still in your hands.

this is probably the most different, vibes wise, and definitely the most honest reflection of what it actually felt like to draw these. it was meditative because the stars aligned to put me in a good headspace for it, but it was still a bit frantic trying to get my ideas down how i wanted them by the end of each song. not too different from locking in and finding the enjoyment in the process of getting through an airport, something that i think can only really be achieved alone. there's somewhere to be and you're not there yet but you're still somewhere while you're on the way. i don't want to drop liminal as a buzzword because i think it's been used to death, even though its original meaning is exactly what i mean; id rather create a whole new blueprint to it.

i think this one is pretty obvious but that's alright. none of this was meant to be mysterious anyway. the song itself, aside from sounding whimsical and, somehow, very specifically birdy, has much less of the pleasantly lonesome vibe the others all do to me. the bunny needed someone to hang out with for this one. i like how it fits with their sparse characterization. i dont think they move through these spaces and moments mindlessly or dissociatedly, i think theyre straight vibing. and i dont think theyre apathetic or cold, or trying to remain distant from others in these communal spaces. i think theyre just a shy viber. and i think theyd be nice to a bird that came up to say hey. it's a good grounding break of whimsy in something otherwise maybe a little lost in the contemplative sauce. which is to say, it reminds me not to be scared im just being pretentious, gives me a breath in the midst of total sincerity big swings without really interruping the sincerity of it.

i think you caught their attention by starting a line behind them at checkout. they're not smiling at you but they're not unfriendly. something in the bleeps and bloops and (pleasant) dialup sounds made me think about the way the internet used to feel like the world wide web, a place you went to access the grand clean futuristic information superhighway. online content for textbooks i had in grade school. when i go to the library i still feel it a little.

at the end here the music really does feel like sounds. not sure how else to describe that. i felt how much time had passed much more clearly than i usually do when making art or engrossed in any task, with the start and end of songs being unobtrusive reminders yet completely dominating how i did this. feeling the end of the album coming felt like swimming up and up and up and starting to see the surface above, and when the track ended and the room was suddenly silent, it was like id become acclimated to the warmth of the water and now the wind was on my face, like id come to suddenly and remembered where i was. not jarringly. just calmly returning to awareness. i think that reads in the drawing. if im being honest, though, i mostly just wanted to draw them with headphones but didnt want to figure out how to make that work with their ears.