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Birchbark Media: Tell me a little bit about the material you've been working on.
Heath Sanding: One of the themes I've been exploring recently in terms of my songwriting is miscommunication, and I think that's something that's been constant throughout history but is becoming more and more apparent in our daily lives. With the advent of globalization and mass communication, what a lot of people expected to come out of that was that everyone on the planet would be more and more similar to each other than ever before. While that may be true, it also feels like we've burrowed deeper into our differences, even when it comes to the people closest to us. Part of that is because cultures from all over the world are mixing and melding; part of that is the proliferation of sub-cultural affiliations like political parties and identities that feel more vital to many people than simply identifying with the city or state they live in. The result is that it becomes easy to get into a mindset that you have nothing in common with people, at which point interpersonal relations turns into international relations. Which is where the suit comes in.
Birchbark: Wait, what does that have to do with the suit?
Sanding: So I got the idea that I would dress like an ambassador, or like a diplomat, someone who was making a deliberate attempt to step out of that sense of isolation and find something in common with his fellow man. The problem is that ambassadors aren't very fashion-forward - they usually just wear a suit, right? And I wasn't going to show up on stage wearing a standard suit like I was at a lounge night or something. So I followed Coco Chanel's advice: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off."
Birchbark: I thought that was because it got too hot on stage.
Sanding: Yeah, it's hot as fuck up there. [laughs]
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nowandlater
Character design by
nicnak044
Heath and interview by
clayburn
Original art here
Heath Sanding: One of the themes I've been exploring recently in terms of my songwriting is miscommunication, and I think that's something that's been constant throughout history but is becoming more and more apparent in our daily lives. With the advent of globalization and mass communication, what a lot of people expected to come out of that was that everyone on the planet would be more and more similar to each other than ever before. While that may be true, it also feels like we've burrowed deeper into our differences, even when it comes to the people closest to us. Part of that is because cultures from all over the world are mixing and melding; part of that is the proliferation of sub-cultural affiliations like political parties and identities that feel more vital to many people than simply identifying with the city or state they live in. The result is that it becomes easy to get into a mindset that you have nothing in common with people, at which point interpersonal relations turns into international relations. Which is where the suit comes in.
Birchbark: Wait, what does that have to do with the suit?
Sanding: So I got the idea that I would dress like an ambassador, or like a diplomat, someone who was making a deliberate attempt to step out of that sense of isolation and find something in common with his fellow man. The problem is that ambassadors aren't very fashion-forward - they usually just wear a suit, right? And I wasn't going to show up on stage wearing a standard suit like I was at a lounge night or something. So I followed Coco Chanel's advice: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off."
Birchbark: I thought that was because it got too hot on stage.
Sanding: Yeah, it's hot as fuck up there. [laughs]
Art by
nowandlaterCharacter design by
nicnak044Heath and interview by
clayburnOriginal art here
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I was hooked by the awesome art, and I stayed for the writing. It's really cool writing for a description of the post. I love the reasoning behind the suit as well, as I never thought of it like that. "Someone who was making a deliberate attempt to step out of that sense of isolation and find something in common with his fellow man." Beautiful words to live by.
You're welcome! It's awesome to read what is put in the description there. I'm working on writing a lot more for the community, and reading other people's written works always helps with ideas and such. It's a nice idea and very enjoyable! Thank you for taking the time to write it
Now that you ask, that's not a bad question! I wasn't even thinking about the tie; I think wearing a tie without a shirt tends to connote either "party-hardy college kid" or "stripper," so that's not it. As for shoes, there's an anthropomorphization scale that has "literally animals but they can talk" on one end and catgirls on the other, and various items of clothing tend to go on or come off at certain points of the scale, with the cutoff point for shoes being smack dab in the middle of the spectrum. I don't have a thing for paws, but I do think seeing them adds a little more overt furriness to a design than if they had shoes on, so my preference is to add shoes only if they're necessary (when I get Marina's design finalized I'm going to have a field day with furry PPE) or stylish (probably the only shoes you'll see on Heath will have heels, or maybe spats if you think those count). So it's probably the shirt he's referring to, both this and many other times he applies that rule. (I have a bunch of Heath art I'm going to post soon, and I think you can see his navel in every single picture ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.)
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