Let’s take a look at Torn Hawk‘s new video for “There Was A Time“, off his 2014 LP Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time, out now on Mexican Summer. Luke Wyatt’s project has always had a strong visual impetus, driven by a truly idiosyncratic aesthetic that he calls video mulch. “There Was A Time” was created over the recent holidays at Wyatt’s childhood home, and while all kinds of different media and visual detritus filter thru, Pieter Bruegel the Elder‘s amazing 16th century painting “Hunters in the Snow”, a print of which hung in the musician’s bedroom as a kid, is featured prominently throughout. Wyatt uses multiple screens, screens within screens, and “live” desktop views for a constantly shifting series of self-reflective views that skew and toy with our sense of perspective and dimensionality. Meanwhile, various media sources are blended with a sort of indiscriminate and childlike ease that forgoes technical aptitude for a lo-fi playfulness–bearing striking and unique results.
