I Need You To Be Free

     When listening to a song called "Palace" by Hayley Kiyoko I had this image of bright red and yellow colours as the song is very vibrant. I decided to create this as the song itself describes a fantasy and shows a slight desperation in needing to let go of it and to move on, however is clearly refusing to let go as the song continues to describe this person in expressive detail, showing their fascination has not gone. Certain lyrics really caught my attention that helped me create this piece.
    The lyrics "turn your shattered dreams into rhapsodies" is very beautiful as I feel it connects with my work with the idea of taking fantasy and developing it into our reality, fuelling our motivation to live life how we want and to achieve. Fiction stories and dreams help us escape and feel different emotions just like listening to music. It helps to extend feelings as we get engrossed in a story or melody. In my piece I made the paint look a little rough and the tissue paper to look bare and screwed as if it was broken like "shattered dreams" but the vibrant, bold, colours oppose this as they appear strong and emotive.
    "Every memory adds another piece, purple, blue and green" this lyric descripts colours but I didn't let that dominate my original colour scheme idea. Purple, blue and green are very creative colours  that have connotations of loyalty, truth, faith, mystery, pride, power, luxury, ambition, life and growth. Purple is a mix of calm stability blue and fierce red which I think goes with the song about tranquillity but also lust. I incorporated these colours by cutting out some padding I had on a shirt. The pattern on the shirt was very free and lively, the colours worked perfectly with the song description. They are light, almost pastel making them appear delicate in contrast to that fierce red. At the beginning and end of song you here running water like a fountain or spring stream, the colours really picked up on this light spring feeling, clean, new and always changing.
     The middle 8 says, "Dance in your colour, Reflecting in your light, You're my horizon, You'll always paint my sky". This reference to horizon and light links to the bright yellow and red that the sun makes when setting or rising. Its always fascinating to watch the colours change as a new day begins, I think it shows how this fantasy helps them get through to the next day and that's why they wont let go. "Dance in your colour" is also very  vivid when listening to the instrumental of the song, altogether this song creates a utopia, it also shows how they see this fantasy version of the person as God like, as if they are worshipping them and their power that holds them there.
     I wrote the chorus on the page, "So this is where I leave you, sitting in a palace covered in gold inside my head. This is where I see you, on a bed of roses when I wanna kiss your silhouette." Once again the worshipping of this person continues, the idea of leaving them in the palace and kissing a silhouette shows how they are not worthy to be with them, therefore can only dream. I considered painting the roses I stuck down gold, but decided to leave them dried up and looking old as it shows how they want to give this person everything but can not afford gold or red luscious roses. The dried roses are also the only real thing on the page conveying the mere, dull reality incorporated with their emotions and fantasy. This also suggest how they are confusing reality with fantasy as they get so lost it begins to merge together. The last key lyric from the bridge before the chorus is the line "I want you to be free". This repeats how they want to let go and let this person live, relish and evolve like a phoenix from a fire as they can not provide all the gold and roses that they deserve. It also adds a lingering "want" showing how they can not let go of such beauty. I wrote this alone in the corner to express this isolation they fear and how they can not forget this fantasy.
    To improve this I think it would be the font writing. I did my basic handwriting as if I was the person who could not provide or be this beauty so it was basic and small. However I feel some fancier, calligraphy may have appeared better as the words describe a irresistible utopia.