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This Poisoned World

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The Poisoned World

Every breath is borrowed now,..

The Poisoned World

[Verse 1]
A sky burns low in embered haze,
poisoned winds move through the plains.
Once-mighty towers, fractured bone,
a graveyard of steel where no birds roam.

The river crawls like rusted blood,
dragging oil through fields of mud.
Empty windows watch the road,
holding shadows of the lives they knew.

[Pre-Chorus]
We taste the metal on our tongues,
hear the warning sirens hum.
Every breath is borrowed now,
but we are breathing somehow.

[Chorus]
In this poisoned world, we remain,
walking through the fire and rain.
It took our homes, it scarred our names,
but it has not taken everything.

When the blackened heavens fall,
we will answer when they call.
This poisoned world may take its toll,
but it will never take us whole.

[Verse 2]
We learned to sleep beneath the ground,
to speak in whispers, make no sound.
We counted water, shared the flame,
and taught the children every name.

We carried photographs and seeds,
a book of songs, a bag of dreams.
The smallest things became our gold,
a hand to hold against the cold.

The earth remembers every wound, every buried drum of poison underground. Every forest stripped, every ocean sold, every promise broken for another piece of gold. But we remember something more, the hands that opened every door. The ones who stayed, the ones who shared, the ones who proved that someone cared. We are not innocent. We are not clean. We are the children of the killing machine. The earth remembers every mark we left, every drill, every spill, every debt. But we can choose what rises next. We can become more than what we left.
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The Potter’s Glaze

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The Potter’s Glaze

Another audio-visual experiment, this time built around clay, fire, glaze, and transformation.

This piece began with the image: a surreal ceramic figure emerging from a dreamlike world of kiln-fired colour, metallic textures, flowing organic forms, and cosmic glaze. From there, the music took shape as a kind of minimalist cinematic hymn — slow, luminous, and ceremonial.

At the heart of the piece is the idea that beauty is not always applied to the surface. Sometimes it is revealed through heat, pressure, fracture, silence, and time.

The slideshow animation was created to accompany the track as a slow visual journey through colour, clay, cosmos, and becoming.

Rather than using fast cuts or literal storytelling, I wanted the visuals to feel immersive and almost ritualistic — like watching glaze shift in the kiln, or a figure slowly being revealed through flame.

For the animation itself, I worked with multiple still images and scripted FFmpeg routines to create variable breathing pulse effects. Rather than relying on a fixed, mechanical slideshow transition, the timing, fades, and image movement were adjusted to create a more organic rhythm.

The Potter’s Glaze by Mark van Jaarsveld Original Song. Transformation is about surviving the fire and becoming more visible after the heat has passed.
The Potter’s Glaze by Mark van Jaarsveld Original Song. Transformation is about surviving the fire and becoming more visible after the heat has passed.
The Potter’s Glaze by Mark van Jaarsveld Original Song. Transformation is about surviving the fire and becoming more visible after the heat has passed.
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