Crystal Fighters - "Champion Sound"
FINALLY !! It's probably been 6-7 years that this song and this scene have been haunting - obsessing me.
It's an extremely brief segment from Crystal Fighters' "Champion Sound". One of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments, hidden between much more fascinating imagery that tends to confuse you as you don't really have the time to grasp what's all happening.
And this brief moment - and the song of course, had me enthralled all those years.
I already tried to bring it to life a few weeks ago, where I tested various tricks to try to catch shadows cast on a drape IN FRONT of the characters. But it wasn't really conclusive, so I gave up :
Visible Curtains
Today I finally started building the scene. My intentions were to recreate it entirely. I began with the background characters, then the birdcage, and then I would have added the foreground dude.
But then I realized that it might be a waste of time to try to rebuild it entirely, so I removed the birdcage again and tried to simply place it into the original pic. And it worked !
I didn't have the courage to erase ALL of Kat's lovely details and turning him into a simple silhouette though. The way his body was highlighted and this expression of him were simply too good to get lost.
Regarding the story, well... I can only imagine that Kat and Tiji ventured once again into foreign lands and encountered this bunch of bohemians and misfits. And for a change, they weren't kicked out and hunted away, nah, au contraire, they've been kindly welcome and given an overall introduction to this forbidden culture. So they shared their meals, they shared their songs, they shared their dances and they shared their beds. Drifting away, slowly, deeply into a realm of drugs, sensuality and lust... where they too vanished, the way all the others did, into the background, contributing to the inebriating atmosphere and the selflessness of this perpetual secret world.
A theme I adore and that I probably described the best in this 2016 render of mine :
"Splendor"
And so I enjoyed seeing 'em, sweaty, tired but still gently fucking, completely unbothered by the dude walking by, Kat simply acknowledging him with an exhausted smile of sincere sympathy, welcoming him without words, at the slow pace of his hips and the rhythm of his soft breaths, before drowning into the depth of the passion again.
Becoming the drug, becoming the dance, becoming the song.
"When I find my girl
- Love will be amazing"
Yeah...
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