The Enemy

from Episodes by Jacob Arch

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    Episodes

    10 Visual Artists
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    10 Songs
    10 Episodes waiting for you to happen.

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Artwork by Sara van Eerden

Episodes

10 Visual Artists
10 Artworks
10 Songs
10 Episodes waiting for you to happen

Episodes is a multidisciplinary project where 10 original compositions from musician/philosopher Jacob Arch have served as a source of inspiration for 10 visual artists from different professional backgrounds (photography, mixed media, painting, installation art) and nationalities.

From Israeli performance/installation artist Yehudit Mizrabi to French graphic designer Axelle Gizard to American photographer Katherine Oktober Matthews: each artist has chosen a song to visually express his or her interpretation of the lyrics and the music. The results were shown for the first time in Gallery Victoria Kovalenchikova (Amsterdam), where all the artworks were exhibited alongside the lyrics of the song they are based upon (October 2011).

The visitors, using the headphones provided, were be able to listen to the song that mirrors the artwork. With this unique form of presentation the visitors found themselves in the centre of three different expressions of the same episode and were invited to form their own interpretation.

A special edition of the cd 'Episodes', designed by one of the participants (Axelle Gizard), with a 26 page full colour booklet with reproductions of all the artworks can still be ordered online

lyrics

The Enemy


Well here you are
Back in the war
You thought you
Left behind
Down in the woods
The enemies
Like shadows
Multiply

No need to search
Your bitter heart
The time has come
To play the part

You know
So well

There’s no here
To help you out
They won’t know
What you mean
And maybe
Just by telling them
You’d show
The enemy
Where to enter
Through the fence
Your last pose
Of innocence

Un-
Veiled

The wind is blowing through the trees
The days to short the light’s to weak
You don’t like the thoughts you trace
They stare at you from every page
And in their eyes you clearly see
The movements of the enemy

And I don’t like it
Anymore then you

She’ll come to you
And give you back
The dreams you
Left behind
She never had the chance
To love
Someone
Of her kind

She’ll throw herself
Into your arms
And beaming
With her deepest charms

She’ll light
The way

She’ll tell you
You’re the only one
Although
You’re not the first
She’ll love you
Like the chosen one
Who quenches
Every thirst
She‘ll tell you
To forget the past
She’ll tell you
That her love will last

So Dream
With her

And when she finds herself at ease
She will slowly start to tease
You with her body, with her words
She’ll linger where she knows it hurts
And in her eyes you clearly see
The movements of the enemy


And I don’t like it
Anymore then you

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from Episodes, released October 23, 2010

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Jacob Arch Granada, Spain

Jacob Arch is a singer, lyricist, composer and renegade philosopher of Dutch descent residing in Granada, Spain. He has released 4 independent studio albums so far, and his highly anticipated fifth album 'Saturn', on which he has been working on and off for over 4 years, is expected to be published by fall 2020. ... more

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