“You Opened One Eye”, a song about separation, is now available for download on Bandcamp.
The situation with my daughter is now improved, and it seems at this current moment that I will get to see her more often than before. So this is great.
The song then, represents a moment in the past, how I was feeling in that instant of time.
Author: 8thangel
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You Opened One Eye (Sad Separation Song) – Available for Download
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Small Space, No Face (Pro-Life song) now available for download
I have uploaded my first song to bancamp. “Small Space, No Face”, a pro-life song, is now available for download.
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“He has Risen” Resurrection Fine Art Print
The “He has Risen” Resurrection fine art print arrived.
Here is a video showing the print in more detail. (For some reason on uploading to Youtube, there is a slight resolution dip at the beginning, but the video appears to correct itself after some seconds. I maye try and redo the video at some point, but for now I’m going to relax!) -
Contact Form Working
Sorry, I realised that my contact form hasn’t been working for a long time. Oops.
I have set up with a different provider, so hopefully things will now work. Just go to the Contact Page -
You Opened One Eye – Separation Song
It’s been a difficult period for me. Separation, and a poor result in custody, seemingly relating to perceptions of my health. Quite frankly, it has been a very disappointing time, one where I must remind myself not to blame people, but rather the insidious lies that currently permeate culture.
Certain ideologies, when embraced like religion, lead to polarization. They seep like poison into the heart, and affect the capacity for love, the comprehension of truth, and render eyes unable to see. The only hope to escape this bitterness that eats away at the soul is God and prayer.It is certainly a bitter time for many, one where rage and hatred dominate, and where there exists the will to see truth through the lens of solipsism and individualism, warring against laws designed to maintain life and order itself.
Ultimately, people are happy to sacrifice others (literally in many cases) for their own peaceful existence and happiness. Behaviour like this is always deplorable. We must instead seek a more noble existence, expressing a wish to become more holy if possible, bringing true inner peace.
To emphasise how far society has diverged off the path, it is possible that some who read the above paragraph will recoil at the word holy. What does this say about society?
So, really I’ve diverged a little.
“You Opened One Eye” is a song about my love for my daughter whilst undergoing a harsh separation. Really, it is a song for her. I want her to one day understand how I felt in being separated from her, so that she can know that I never abandoned her, that my hands were tied, and that I always loved her and wanted her with me.Perhaps I should have had more control when writing this. I hope that bitterness has not crept into the lyrics too much. Really, the lyrics mainly relate to anguish, and the hole in my heart when I think of how this must affect my daughter.
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Small Space, No Face – Pro-life Music
This is a pro-life track taken from the perspective of the unborn baby in the womb.
The journey begins with conception, with the baby talking to the mother, making its love known, but also it’s fragility.This intimate record explores life before birth, maternity, and the loving bond between mother and child.
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The Passion of the Christ
Here is a new work, a modern interpretation of The Passion of the Christ.
It is an “album” which details Christ’s Passion, from Gethsemene, through to His Death on the Cross.
Complete with bible quotes and synthesizer usage, it is perhaps best described musically as a “soundscape”, or “audiodrama”.
At all points, the aim is to be respectful to Christ’s Passion, being an “in-faith” depction of Jesus’ struggles at this time, through to His Victory on the Cross.
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Hail Jesus – Contemporary Catholic Hymn
I have a kind of first draft of a hymn. It’s called “Hail, Jesus”, and is about Jesus being the path to salvation.
I like to think we are all on the path in some way, it’s just that some of us have chosen to move away from Jesus, rather than towards Him. But that doesn’t mean we can’t adjust our positions mid stride.
And for those who feel they are on the right path, perhaps it is important to recognise that a narrow path is hard to follow, and can be lost easily.
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Receive His Grace – Uplifting Catholic Song for Prayer and Reflection
I have decided to dabble a little in some Catholic music. I’ve been making a series of Christian shorts, alongside some longer songs.
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Turin Shroud Burn Marks
In my previous article, I remarked upon how the artifacts in the resurrection image i made resembled those on the Turin Shroud.
If you look at the above two images, you will perhaps be able to see the marks: quite obviously on my image – the blue/white marks to the right; and on the Turin Shroud (post feature image), roughly triangular marks which are perhaps similar. Other Shroud pictures depict these patches more distinctly, but I am using one of the free-to-use Shroud images here.
To clear up, it seems that these patches are not in fact artifacts created at the point of the orginal Shroud creation, but are in fact later artifacts caused by a fire. The fire occured in 1532 in Chambéry Castle, when molten silver burned holes in the shroud. Poor Clare nuns later formed a repair job, sewing patches over the holes.
So in terms of the Resurrection image, I would now say the light artifacts are less allusory to the Shroud, as there were no damage artifacts originally on the Shroud.Just wanted to clear that up!
Still, the artifacts are still special to me, representing late damage to the negative which is aestheticaly pleasing, showing the fragility and beauty of a light burned image.