Vanity

from Episodes by Jacob Arch

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    Episodes

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

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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

Vanity


I don’t know what it is
You mistake me for
Do you want my Jesus?
Do you want my rock and roll?

I got to give you something
And I better do it quick
It all happens on the surface
And the surface must be slick

There is so much information
That I cannot unfold
Got to turn a blind eye
Or they call me paranoid

Still I’m haunted by these dreams
There is a tremor in my soul
I exorcise these demons
To invite them just once more

But…
Don’t I know very well?
You don’t need my honesty
Don’t I know very well?
That we deal in vanities

Sometimes when the voices
Have stopped to disagree
I sing away the darkness
And lose my gravity

Full of inspiration
When every breath is mine
I can’t help to wonder
Where was I all this time?

My father is in heaven
On this world he gave up
Father reigns in heaven
It’s a steady job

My mother runs a warehouse
It is stacked up till the roof
Mother runs a warehouse
Now she can hardly move

My brother is a servant
He works from nine to five
My sister she’s a merchant
She is selling daddy’s lies

My friends they all believe in something’
Oft they call it love
My friends they all believe in something
But something’s not enough

And I’m just like a lady
Who knows not what to wear
I’m just like a lady
I need that special care

But…
Don’t I know very well?
You don’t need my honesty
Don’t I know very well?
You can’t leave the family

When I was child
I walked by a mountain stream
The stones looked beautiful
So I took them home with me

As soon as I got back
I took them out
One by one
To my disappointment
The glow they had was
Gone

I’ve been driven by desire
I’ve been sick and I’ve been old
I’ve been dancing with my demons
I’ve been lost and I’ve been sold

I’ve been down and disconnected
I’ve been speeding down the road
I’ve been dining with the gods
I’ve been juggling with my load

I’ve been flirting with the love
With the love she gave to me
I’ve been nailing my Jesus
Up to my neighbour’s tree

But…
Don’t I know very well?
You don’t need my honesty
Don’t I know very well?
That I deal in vanities

Deep down in the ocean
Creatures live unknown
Can’t bring them to the light
For they will explode

All our deepest moments
We’ll take them to the grave
The truth won’t reach the surface
The sun won’t light the cave

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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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