Hi everyone happy New year. I'm so glad to be back doing art crit with you all. Before we leave I wanted to share something I wrote.
I have retired from the corporate world and I am a full time artist now. I have a registered company with my blog. A blog where I document my artistic spiral and art practice. I've actually shared this, what I'm saying to you all on my blog. I have also decided to take a sabbatical/semi retirement from my art career. I will not be applying to grants, residences or publications this year. I am relying on my friends, my acquaintances and wider community to support me. I am a queer person estranged from both my parents and a visible immigrant in a hostile environment especially living on the south side of Dublin. I am largely housebound in a society that despises COVID safety.
I am asking you all to support me by subscribing to my blog, it is a pay what you can subscription and most of the content is available for the free tier as most of the blog is my writing.
However I share my music, visual art and more recently a podcast I animated on the platform. I discuss everything from AI to hygiene, interpersonal relationships to navigating life as an artist in the 21st Century.
I'm going to stop here and hope that you all sign up and more importantly bookmark my blog, visit regularly and share with all the black people you know, all the disabled people you know, and all the artists you know. I've learned word of mouth marketing makes a difference so here I am using my creativity and mouth and I hope you can appreciate how nerve wracking it is to say this as a rejection sensitive person but my survival relies on this blog. Can't wait to see you all there. I've added the link in the bio and there's an app you can download if you check the about page. Thank you for listening.
Single Artwork description: An African person on the floor under a desk appearing exhausted and overwhelmed. He is wearing traditional African material, surrounded by office items: a laptop covering his face, theres wires to the right of him, a laptop bag to the left of him and on the office table theres an air purifier necklace, headphones, an ergonomic mouse, a regular mouse, a wireless keyboard, papers, a book and a wireless HDMI transmitter. The image is overall is a bluey hue.
Lyrics:
(jazzy instrumental with city sounds)
Wake up? Are you awake? The shareholders need their money. Have you woken up yet? Hello
Love, Builder of Worlds presents: Commuter’s Commitment (Mundane Mondays)
Press release written by L.M Gabriel
For immediate release.
KPIs. P & L. Business as usual. The collective groan could be heard amongst commuters everywhere when companies announced their "Return To Office” plans for 2025.
A guttural groan, from those of us burned out, hummed in harmony against silent screams that caregivers and parents swallowed so as to not startle those they care for.
In response, seemingly ever attuned to the quiet whispers of the masses, Love, Builder of Worlds collaborated with Manae Vaughn-Hammond to present: Commuter’s Commitment/Mundane Mondays.
The song is a lo-fi jazz instrumental inspired by the infamous London commute the anti-binary artist grew up deeply entrenched in; acutely aware of its adornments of delays, overcrowded platforms, stuffy and sometimes sweltering heat, and of course its ear piercing symphony of screeches. Commuter’s Commitment instead offers itself as a reprieve from the cacophony of chaos that is the commute, and serves the listener as a friendly accompaniment of comfort on those seemingly endless mundane mondays and the days that follow.
A marked departure from his debut single, punk rock anthem ‘Scared For The Climate’, Love’s eclectic taste and production skills are on full display here. While ‘Scared For The Climate’ was filled with angst and furor, Commuter’s Commitment/Mundane Mondays conveys the weight of its sentiments wordlessly, and the listener is invited to find a soft landing against the frenzied familiar.
The multidisciplinary artist prides the composition as an anti-capitalist song for the worker. Of which at one point is briefly interrupted by a voice, pulling us out of the wistful daze it had transported us to; to remind us that the shareholders of the corporations we toil for matter much more than our desperate need for work/life balance. That our restful reprieve was much like a dream, fleeting, and we must leave our overpriced housing and make that commute - burnout and Covid be damned.
As ever, Love, Builder of Worlds has created something for marginalised groups that transports you to the lived experience he is conveying through the sounds he has so carefully created. Not wishing to leave us stuck in this vicious cycle, the artist invites listeners to patronise Olólùfẹ́ Collective, a space for marginalised people to create, collaborate and practice collectivism.
Commuter’s Commitment (Mundane Mondays) is out on 25th November 2024.
Official Website
https://ololufe-collective.ghost.io/tag/love-builder-of-worlds/
Bandcamp
https://lovebuilderofworlds.bandcamp.com/track/scared-for-the-climate
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@LoveBuilderofWorlds
Apple Music (Free Congo)
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/love-builder-of-worlds/1712766120
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/lovebuilderofworlds
Please note Love, Builder of Worlds is not on any social media