Gabriel Aragão
Once a school counselor told me that if I chose the path of all art, I would be like a duck: can walk, can swim, can fly, but can't do any properly.
I then looked at my school schedule and saw: Chemistry, Geometry, Algebra, Biology, History, Geography, and many more dense curriculum classes and chose, not to do any of them, so my art could flourish.
I was not gonna give up on my dream of doing all of my art, expressing all of my feelings, because one person deemed other material more pertinent. I have studied and graduated high school nonetheless and was accepted into one of the most prestigious contemporary art schools in the U.S.
The main path for my life became music, but my passion has always been in worldbuilding. That is not possible without all mediums so art became my backbone, and I began to make all the art for my worlds.
The Book
A love letter to my mother and reality:
A book for learning to love life.
After long waiting for a meaning, searching for it in a profession, a study, a book, I decided to take it into my own hands and realized the art I truly needed was my own. The anxiety poured into the pages, the stress flowed into the music, the tension released into the pictures.
My true calling was the life I wanted to live. In a broken world I waited for a saviour, a hero, but never realized I was the reason for my own life. The reason for living was my experienc, the human experience. The same way every life is precious because the universe could not exist without every single person, with every different point of view.
The Music
The music came after long trying to copy people, trying to learn from popular music, hoping to hear something familiar I learned the music I waited for was within, and it wasnt gonna be mirrored in any other popular or indie music already released. My originality came from the universe within, the one I, myself, control.
- Poem
- Lyric
- Music
Those were the steps of my creation. I poured into words the feelings I wished to express, I gave them musical rhythm by turning into lyrics, and then the music came.
