“It’s too much to discuss sober.I know just why you think,
That you need an anaesthetised mouth to
Say all those bladed things.
Need you like I need a headache,
Need you like I need my mistakes, right here.
Need you like I need a downpour,
I don’t need you but I need so much more, right here.
It’s too much to discuss lovers,
I know how much you’ve lied.
It’s too much to discuss numbers,
I know how much I’ve let slide.
Need you like I need a headache,
Need you like I need my mistakes, right here.
Need you like I need a downpour,
I don’t need you but I need so much more, right here.
Time is always, harder on the quiet days,
Brings back up that old sacrifice:
You’ve cost me more than I ever knew before,
And looking back I cannot deny.
Need you like I need a headache,
Need you like I need my mistakes.
Need you like I need a downpour,
I don’t need you but I need so much more.”
[ Mistakes – Phildel ]
Third work from The Disappearance Of The Girl.
Differently from Storm Song, Mistakes was a more dificult song to decipher: most of the symbolism in it is abstract and doesn’t really give much hints about how to render it visually. This is why I decided to pay hommage and get inspired by the music video and use a tangle of thread to represent the concept. Only, I decided to use a red woolen thread because the bright colour would stand out more in the photo and give a stronger visual idea of the “dangerousness” of the “mistakes” (as well as not to copy the video too much). Once I decided this basic visual, the rest came out by itself: Luisa trying to reach out from her tangle of mistakes to the viewer (who in my idea is also the addressee of the lyrics). Beside, again, not to copy the video, the reason why I decided to create a tangle of threads all around Luisa rather than on herself was I wanted to visually get as close as possible to the melody of the song: I think the association of the thread with strings can provide a synaesthetic link to the dynamic pizzicato violins.
This photo was particularly fun to take because I had to tangle the whool to any place I could find in my room: furniture, nails, the handle and hinges of the door, even shoes! I kind of regret I didn’t take a backstage picture because at that point my room looked really absurd. Meanwhile, Luisa was very patient to wait in her corner for me to be satisfied with the pattern. She immediately did a great job at posing and the only reason I did multpile takes on the photo was to vary the perspective in order to get the best “design” from the threads. I’m very happy with this photo because the very short depth of field I used blurred many details giving the image the softer, painting-like feel I wanted it to have.
Differently from Storm Song, Mistakes was a more dificult song to decipher: most of the symbolism in it is abstract and doesn’t really give much hints about how to render it visually. This is why I decided to pay hommage and get inspired by the music video and use a tangle of thread to represent the concept. Only, I decided to use a red woolen thread because the bright colour would stand out more in the photo and give a stronger visual idea of the “dangerousness” of the “mistakes” (as well as not to copy the video too much). Once I decided this basic visual, the rest came out by itself: Luisa trying to reach out from her tangle of mistakes to the viewer (who in my idea is also the addressee of the lyrics). Beside, again, not to copy the video, the reason why I decided to create a tangle of threads all around Luisa rather than on herself was I wanted to visually get as close as possible to the melody of the song: I think the association of the thread with strings can provide a synaesthetic link to the dynamic pizzicato violins.
This photo was particularly fun to take because I had to tangle the whool to any place I could find in my room: furniture, nails, the handle and hinges of the door, even shoes! I kind of regret I didn’t take a backstage picture because at that point my room looked really absurd. Meanwhile, Luisa was very patient to wait in her corner for me to be satisfied with the pattern. She immediately did a great job at posing and the only reason I did multpile takes on the photo was to vary the perspective in order to get the best “design” from the threads. I’m very happy with this photo because the very short depth of field I used blurred many details giving the image the softer, painting-like feel I wanted it to have.
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