Ghost Ship is out today! You can listen to it on Bandcamp here, or watch the lyric video here.

This song is a meditation on time. When I wrote it, I was dogsitting at Maggie’s house in Petite Riviere. I was reading books like J.B Mackinnon’s A Once and Future World (one of my all-time faves) and thinking about geologic time.

(Incidentally, Maggie’s new collection of clothes is out now and I did some modelling for her shoot- check it out here!).

The single cover was shot by Mo in the vacant lot by my house. I’m obsessed with the vacant lot- I go there every single day and take pictures of things, make silly little videos, and listen to birds. It’s one of those liminal suburban places that is so fleeting and yet so practically a part of the neighbourhood’s daily rhythms.

Every day, kids ride their mountain bikes around a makeshift dirt course. Commuters walk through on their way downtown. People shoot up or pitch tents or sit for a while. I think I might leave a sharps container and maybe a garbage bin the next time I go up there, to introduce some harm reduction measures to our vacant lot society.

What is our responsibility to each other? To the land? To future generations? Time is a spiral; everything that has ever existed and ever will is present in every moment.

Victorian ladies in wide-brim hats tend to their gardens alongside construction workers framing up the elevator shaft for a new 35-storey condo. We live alongside the past.

I found this picture of a house built in the 1830s with stone from the Shubenacadie Canal and realized it stood across the street from my home. I stand where the front door once was when I go check my mailbox. A man named Frank lived there for 40 years, and then the house was torn down in 1969. I wonder how it survived the Halifax Explosion?

Re. the lyric video- It’s a compilation of a few different visual experiments, including some explorations in TouchDesigner (a programming software what you can use to make freaky real-time 2D and 3D art), some stop-motion clips that I made by taking a picture of the same tree every day for a couple of months, and some historic pictures of Dartmouth overlaid on top of present-day footage.

Thanks, as always, for your attention to these thoughts and things I’ve made. I don’t take it for granted.

I would absolutely love to hear any thoughts you have on the song or the visuals- please reply to this email with anything that comes to mind!

xoxo