Floatin’

Year of Creation:

2020

Media:

Song + Digital Collage 

Dimensions:

Variable

Interaction Type:

Not Interactive

Duration:

2:21

Description:

A hybrid work of sound and image, Floatin’ captures the sensation of drifting without anchor—adrift between burden and release, myth and the everyday. The song’s hazy texture mirrors its central refrain: “I’m floating.” The beat lingers in mid-tempo, looping gently like waves, while the vocal sits raw but diffused—intimate yet estranged. The accompanying collage visualizes this suspension: a reclining statue, equal parts Atlas and Moses, hovers weightless over a psychedelic ocean. Behind it, a cosmic orb radiates flame-like rays. At the bottom, neon-colored canoe paddlers row casually across the same sea, oblivious to the mythic burden above. Together, the song and collage stage a meditation on exile, weightlessness, and survival—where staying afloat itself becomes an act of defiance.

Core Question:

What does it mean to carry great weight while drifting without direction?

Loop Analysis

Structure: 

Dissociative Drift Loop

Definition: 

A system where sound and image repeat states of suspension—neither sinking nor arriving, only drifting.

Leverage Point: 

Recognition that survival may not mean triumph but persistence: remaining afloat amidst uncertainty.

Inputs / Outputs: 

Human voice → digital processing → oceanic soundscape → listener immersion; classical statue + saturated textures → digital collage → viewer recognition of myth refracted through pop aesthetics

Effect: 

Haze, disorientation, melancholy, yet steady resilience

Ethical Valence: 

Vulnerable—foregrounds dissociation and alienation but refuses collapse, reframing floating as persistence rather than failure

Design Note: 

By sourcing all sonic material from the artist’s own voice and pairing it with mythological archetypes, the work collapses the personal and the cosmic, making survival itself a mythic act.