Oh hi. I took this picture of many layers of paint when I was out on a walk. I think it’s more beautiful than anything I could possibly make myself, with all my skill and focus and attention to detail, makes me think of hydrangeas. Anyway at today’s desk, I’m thinking about how this beauty is only possible because over time, things have been removed. Working alone, and even working in the band, I work in layers. Maybe it’s partly just the systems I use to record and visualise it while I’m doing it, but they are all depicted in layers: You add bass layers, you have foundations, and then add more decorative additional layers on top these, and at 3am there are always more layers to be made in a semi conscious state using novelty instruments. So today my question is: What if you started with all of the possible material and your task was to take parts away, much as a stone carver would. Like just as a default assume that to have all the layers there at once is the baseline. And there is a place for that, I get it. But if you want to really see things, expose things, you’d need to be in the business of removing, not adding.