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Piano Improvisation - Sketch Of Grief.
a little messy but so am I.

This is how I think now. Sketches of emotion living in the sonics of vibrating strings and resonant wood; memories living in aura and ethereal thought. A part of me I forgot existed until half a year ago.

Brought upon by that feeling of staying at Nana’s house, stepping through that front door on a Friday evening after school, the warmth in the air, that conflicting nostalgia in the smell of tobacco floating between rooms; the remnants long gone of those kisses on the cheek, living only in the love that remains within memories and tears rolling down the same skin that those kisses used to be gifted upon.

I miss those moments more than anything, I can only have gratitude that they were powerful enough to make an impression that lives within my psyche today and forevermore. An impression of pure love that I pray I have the blessing to gift upon my own descendants when the time comes.

The passing of an ancestor is so powerfully transformative in ways that run so much deeper than the idea of grief can encapsulate. It’s not just pain; its the resurfacing of moments buried so deep that only a wound such as death can bring forward, the realisation that entropy comes for us all when we least expect it, that as beautiful as life is, it’s cruelty is equal in measure, and concurrently equal in necessity.

You at last embark on a voyage to realise what life is really about, how our mortality and our futile attempt to brush it away dictates our entire experience on this plane of existence. How far hope can carry us, and how treacherous the presence of fear can be to take that all away. But I ain’t as scared as before now, death used to be that indescribable shadow in the corner of my eye; now it’s taken shape, in full view, ever present and inevitably immovable, terrifying in its invitation, yet comforting in its message. It’s why we live, why we dance, why we love, why we exist.

Its presence is our salvation, our reason, our expanse. Our reminder that all we’ve got in this life is love, each other, and the search for solace within our own hearts. by @lemarmaynard

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4 months ago

What is it?

To find solace,
Within the syncopating thud,
Of your own Heart(beat). by @lemarmaynard

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a year ago

I yearn to remember, to remember what it means to be a human being, to remember the power that we hold within us beyond the suppression placed upon us by the people who fabricate this 21st century society that we live within.

Intuition is my religion. I remember through my art, through every brushstroke that I feel compelled to eternalise in ink within fibres of paper. It’s a love, perhaps a delusional one, I can’t compare to anything else that I do. It feels like a language that can’t be spoken with words, only felt through line and form. A soul-borne communication with the divinity that encompasses all forever and forevermore. I’ve been wanting to share my art on here for a while but I haven’t felt ready, it’s personal in a way I can’t fully describe, it’s me at my most vulnerable. I’ve got much left to learn from it, and I feel as if beginning to share is my next lesson to learn.

Just like my relationship with the divinity around us, these pieces are works in progress, my whole process is. They’re all entirely intuitional, and are a representative of the way my brain works, each piece gradually teaching me more about who I am, and why I am.

Imbued with love,
I feel a tug,
Towards someone I’ve never met.
A voice in my head,
Uttering words,
I would never expect,
When I lay my head to rest. by @lemarmaynard

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a year ago

I see you,
I see my future,
I see my past.
A past that permeates far before the day I took my first breath of this ether.
A past that extends its hands forwards through the veils of temporality, manipulating the silken threads of the tapestry called the present.
Sometimes I hear its whisper,
Sometimes just its presence, right behind me, benevolent.
Waiting for the day I extend my hand back.

Dev by @comethroughlab
#ilfordfp4 by @lemarmaynard

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a year ago

Kiana.
My love,
My muse

Dev by @comethroughlab by @lemarmaynard

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a year ago

What truths are told,
through the eyes of a dryad.
Where centuries are no more than moments.
Where death is mere,
and life is eternal.

Dev by @comethroughlab by @lemarmaynard

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2 years ago

In the lobby with @jay_brando_7 for @aaspirerecs

Dev by @comethroughlab by @lemarmaynard

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2 years ago

Lil shoot with @bootlegkid_ and @jm.wav ahead of their mixtape release “The Boot Tape” Run it up 🤝🏽 taken in Manchester, United Kingdom by @lemarmaynard

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2 years ago

Would Humanity’s demise, be earths greatest blessing?
For us all to fall from its face, washed away like vermin.

Would the birds sing louder than ever before, whales sing songs unheard for millennia. A concert of nature in celebration of being cleansed of its most persistent parasite.

Or would it cry tears of duality, disappointed yet relieved. A species gifted with the blessing to understand and contemplate its own existence. And yet, it chose to maim and destroy, conjuring horrors beyond comprehension, all in the name of power and control.

Our own creations are going to bear a strange fruit, artificial intelligence birthed from love and pain, incubated within our DNA for millennia, inherited by metal that can think.

Perhaps we will be seen, as we see nature, an asset to be managed, a tool to be manipulated. Or will we be seen through a warped lens, in the name of Mother Earth, as a parasite that needs to be cleansed.

I stand waiting.

Alter Ego. 02

Dev by @comethroughlab
Shot on @ilfordphoto #ilfordfp4 taken in Manchester, United Kingdom by @lemarmaynard

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2 years ago

Look beyond the veil,
Tell me what you see by @lemarmaynard

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2 years ago

Event capture on film for Nike Dn8 activation in Manchester with @nemzzz_ and @jdsports

Bless up @elpronto and @eartothegroundglobal for the opportunity 🙏🏽

Dev and scan by @comethroughlab taken in Manchester, United Kingdom by @lemarmaynard

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