Markidis attempts to show us his path as an artist in this video of maturation. Integral in the imagery and style of the video is the idea of cool that Markidis has worked on in the past. The lines in the voice over sound young and angry. Layers of the different voices become distorted and overlaid on each other and then there is a brief interlude of screamo/metal music. After that it is back to lines about high school teachers and being better then everyone. By the end the end we realize that neither the audio or the images take us anywhere, didn’t lead to the artist being a better self, didn’t lead to maturation. That is it though. That is the maturation, that it hasn’t happened, that it doesn’t exist. Ok maybe that isn’t maturation but it as least reflective and that is a good place to start. The first step is admitting your addicted, right. So maybe the first step for an egotistical self absorbed person trying to progress as an artist is to admit that he hasn’t at all thus far.
-McPhail
