Black Taffy has a brand new video for the track “And They Saw” off his upcoming Opal Wand LP due out May 8th via Leaving Records. The Dallas-based producer, real name Donovan Jones, reports that he asked his friend Sean Miller to create the video, and the results brought him to tears. In Miller’s Artist Statement, he explains his aesthetic this way:
“My hybrid approach seeks to reconcile the physical and the virtual, by discovering hidden qualities, tensions, and often-serendipitous occurrences, which emerge in the exploration of multiple forms of media, techniques, and processes.”
Using his 3-D canvas as a painter might, the visual artist employs an experimental approach that is drawn to texture, as well as qualities of light and perspective, to create surreal virtual worlds of the almost real. But it is his ability to make this an emotive experience capable of triggering deep reservoirs of collective memory that makes “And They Saw” such a mysterious and affecting work.
While you’re at it, don’t miss the Black Taffy track “Ocarina” off of Opal Wand.
