Birth from Decay
The deeper the wound, the more fertile the ground becomes. It's the unraveling, the breaking that allows us to breathe.
I make things out of what falls apart.
That’s the truest way I can put it. My whole practice grows from one belief. Decay isn’t an ending, it’s a beginning wearing a different face. A fallen leaf feeds the soil it lands on. Rot is just the first stage of something else becoming. I’m drawn to what’s weathered, impermanent, unfinished, to the things that wear their time out in the open. You can read a whole story in how something has aged, and I find that beautiful. It’s the principle I’ve built a whole creative life on.
I’m a vocalist, lyricist, producer, and creative director working across music, writing, photography, and design. Under G4RDEN OF EDEN, I tend all of it as one living organism. With my project Eden in Decay, I take the rawest material and turn it into sound. Grief. Change. The slow composting of who I used to be. I’m not interested in art that pretends to be whole. I want art that’s honest about the breaking, because the breaking is where everything compelling begins.
I see it this way because of how my mind is built. It has always moved unconventionally, and for a long time I was told that made me a problem to solve. Too scattered, too sensitive, too much. As nothing is fixed, I’ve outgrown this belief. The same wiring that left me out of step is what allows me to see worlds others walk past, hear melodies buried in noise, and lose myself in the mundane details most people are trained to ignore.
So I play the only way I know how.
I gather what has broken and let it feed whatever wants to grow next, in the work and in the life around it. Nothing I make is sterile, nothing is sealed shut. It’s all alive, and all of it is still becoming.
My G4RDEN isn’t untouched. It’s sovereign, built from fractures and fertilized by the decay of every self I’ve outgrown, and it’s the most alive creation I’ve ever made. Even the 4 is deliberate, a small act of remaking inside the word itself.
If any of this resonates, then you already know what I know: that the most beautiful things are almost always the impermanent ones, and that honesty is rarely comfortable for anyone in the room.
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Let’s Connect
This G4RDEN isn’t meant to be tended alone. If you’re an artist drawn to decay, transformation, or the kind of beauty that takes its time, I’d love to hear from you, whether you want to collaborate, share your own work, or just tell me what’s growing on your end.
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