NRR218: No Artist "The Dweller" C56

Dweller was recorded after living in a perpetually flooding basement where the artist was recovering from female feminization surgery. She captures the horrors of domesticity and the compelling inertia of bed rotting.

Her tools are kitchen appliances, the ambient sounds of houses, radio signals, a dismembered piano in the woods, mutated iron on an urban shore, eggs.

She takes inspiration from her grandmother, who raised her while her mother had extreme bipolar, and from watching her curl up into herself in a nursing home. She takes inspiration from being exactly like her, from [redacted] acting as a caretaker, and from a life spent inside a house, unable to leave.

Her themes are her own diagnosed schizophrenia, religious trauma, a grandfather with religious psychosis who thought he was a prophet sent from god, festering depression, layers of dead skin and hair, possessed houses, moving multiple times because the house was thought to be haunted, slowly rotting into furniture, the feeling of crawling out of one’s skin brought on by antipsychotics and gender dysphoria, uncontrollable movement, and the blurred lines of being a friend, a lover, a family member and a mental health patient.

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