Scarecrow (Let Us Pray)
Scarecrow (Let Us Pray)
Song written & performed by NKW
Beat produced by Zeldris
Video directed by Michal A. @andryiszku & Allistair @alliztair & NKW
Filmed by Michal A.
Projections by Allistair
Edited by NKW.
Filmed at Grabowsee Artist Residency, 2022.
About:
The Scarecrow Music video (while released in August 2023) was created in 2022 at the Grabowsee Artist Residency, Germany.
The song is one I wrote in response to the many nights I would spend working on drawings or paintings that often merged into something else; starting off based in realism, and settling somewhere in the realms of the surreal or abstract.
The song itself began as a break from painting (while my canvas dried). Before I knew it, I had something that felt more like a dream-like anthem in my hands, and I did not go to sleep that night until the song was completed.
The term "Scarecrow" refers to multiple aspects of the creative condition: The infamous Block Artists and Writers have feared for eternity. It looms, metaphorical, and attempts to scare progress away. Also, the self. At times, while sat on a chair or sofa, tiredly surveying the canvas before me, I wonder if there really is more artwork to come out or if I am simply avoiding the inevitable; the end of the painting. The conclusion of what I have begun. How many times have I become the Scarecrow I always believe is in my way?
The only way I've ever found to defeat that Scarecrow is to Pray and to Meditate in my own way; through Creation - Art, and Words. So, Let us -