Robert Taira Wilson - Dragonfly Official Music Video

“I was a vagrant, and a misfit, until I found myself across an ocean, in a place where I could start again. A beautiful and strange place, on the other side, beyond the surface of my old world. With dragonfly eyes, it beckons me on.”

Made with the invaluable help of Wahei Nakamura (Camera - Co-director), Atowa Yuri (Violin) and Andrea D'Ostuni - (Drums).

Special shout out to 'Know Your Barber' for letting us film in the shop.

You can watch a short 'making of' video I put together here:
   • Robert Taira Wilson - Making Of Drago...  

Lyrics:
In the distance and delirium
Vagabond across the ocean
In the outline iodine sky
Dragonfly

All my promises
So heavy on my chest
Your ever thirsty furnaces
Never rest

Why don’t we skip right to the end
I’m tired of waiting
Formless in free fall
That’s me
Silver splashes on the mercury surface
Autumn dyes and eyes of peridot
My iridescent hero
Much more beautiful than you need to be
I would’ve fallen for free

That’s why I
Call you my dragonfly


Description:
If you watch the video, you can see that while everything is playing out in reverse, I am not. I am traveling through this reversing world in the forward direction. The concept behind this is that, once our lives and journeys are over, people generally feel like they go ‘back’ to their homes and/or to the places where they grew up in. Going back to the places they belong to. I feel very different. It may be a slight exaggeration and it may not be how I feel in the future, but I feel like I have arrived at my home and I don’t feel like I have much to go back to. Family aside, I never felt much like I belonged in my real hometown. I don’t feel that it made or defined me in any substantial way, except in how my sense of alienation and dislocation from it shaped the artist/person that I now am. I do of course have some nostalgic memories of growing up, but they are far from the kinds of sentimental bonds that most people have with the places they are from.



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