Multidisciplinary artist Female Pentimento employs the skills of digital visionary Axonbody for the enigmatic visual for ‘Zugunruhe’, called after the German word for distressed or uneasy behaviour in migratory animals.
Though typically drawing from individual discomfort, the work of Female Pentimento shines divine light on a world complete of marvel. In her music, organ drones are layered with visceral noise style, ASMR whispers and lacerated sound to magnify a consistent stress inbetween transcendent appeal and cathartic scary. In the verysame method her images, elaborate composites of photography and digital structure, conjures minutes of appeal so surreal they continuously threaten to suggestion over into the superb. Through the eyes of Female Pentimento, our world is brimming with phantoms, Ignes Fatui, Brocken spectres, luminescent splendors and Heiligenschein, natural phenomena that come the closest to symptoms of the incredible. “I grew up in the Methodist church and I believe unconsciously a lot of standard, Christian meaning hasactually been ingrained in my mind and made its method into my work; light being one aspect,” the artist informed Coeval Magazine. “Its capability to transmute the physical and speak to a more gorgeous, inner world endures the cliches and spiritual undertones for me.” Eschewing representations of human beings for alternate truths livedin by alternate types of energy, Female Pentimento looksfor to change the world as suggests of checkingout our location within it, a biospiritualist practice that discovers divine motivation within nature. Digital visionary Axonbody shares a likewise esoteric technique to image making, blurring the natural with the artificial upuntil they are identical from each other, collapsing all matter into lively material, breaking with capacity energy. The 2 share such typical ground that their partnership feels predestined, the conference of 2 minds devoted to both inner and external discovery. It’s fitting, then, that the 2 come together for Zugunruhe, a scorching hymn to chaos and improvement, exposing a spirit in crisis.
“In the video we usage the concept of birds to speak straight to this concept of ‘zugunruhe’, which is a term that refers to the instinctive uneasyness that numerous migratory birds experience,” describes Female Pentimento. “I think as a idea it’s an intriguing metaphor for the liminal phase of a recovery procedure, that is, desiring to modification your physical or psychological state however not understanding how and sensation lost inthemiddleof the desire.” Stroboscopic flares, storm clouds inflamed with electricalenergy and deformed murmurations of birds portray states of consistent flux, setdown on a knife edge inbetween modification and damage. Artificial light permeates grey rock developments while ancient stones burn with pale fire, the natural world burst by abnormal forces. “The concepts of cycles and renewals is something that has constantly been extremely main in my work,” continues Axonbody. “What is left after a type of energy rises from one layer of truth to another? Can some of it stay left behind, and what would it appearance like? I believe I linked really carefully to ‘Zugunruhe’ duetothefactthat of that. The friction inbetween the whispered voices and the screams in the vocals feels like a extremely raw representation of this state of confusion somebody can feel when being on the edge of huge modifications, or improvement, this sensation of worry and destination towards that next layer of truth, the next phase in your life.” Female Pentimento explains the track as “a reaction to my own desire to recover from abuse however not having the tools or knowledge to do so,” and rotates inbetween tender spoken word, ethereal consistencies, strangled tune and devitalized growls, financing clearness to catharsis. “I desired to capture the yearning and turmoil of that procedure,” the artist continues. “I was interested in checkingout various sonic temperaturelevels, so there are parts of the tune that are rather cold and barren, while other minutes feel a bit warmer and calming. I believe this shows the psychological ups and downs that can come with the journey to heal one’s heart.”
“I’ve been a fan of Axonbody’s work for a coupleof years now and I’ve constantly been drawn to his capability to naturally speak to the esoteric,” states Female Pentimento of their shared vision of ‘Zugunruhe’. “I think what makes Female Pentimento’s work so unique is that while illustrating extremely special and surreal scenes, there is some sort of omniscient quality to it,” continues Axonbody. “It feels like these images are currently a part of you priorto you even see them, like finding an old movie picture that you took in a past life. I believe that’s a extremely valuable sensation that not a lot of art can communicate and I love the work for that. It simply feels really natural and universal. I have a extremely iterative technique when it comes to creatives procedure; I’ll start by going really spontaneously into it, preparing as much as possible based off emot