Through Portals (2026)

My second single release for 2026.

This is a piece about grief, about hope, about time – about beauty within tragedy. This is a piece about a liminal realm; portals between distant places in a fantastical world, appearing and dissolving in endless, ephemeral cycles. This is a piece that I wrote two years prior, in the month after my grandparents passed away.

It was a very raw outpouring of how I was feeling at the time, and it was a continuation of the sci-fi aesthetics I was exploring in my music. A piece that formed without resistance, in the moment, no hesitation.

Unlike all my previous singles, this is a shorter, fully ambient work. I've typically reserved single releases for my more long-form and upbeat tracks, but I feel this track represents an important part of my musical voice that deserves to be highlighted in this way.

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Open;

close.

Breathe;

exhale.

A step forward through this frame

expires my body to move on;

a liminal moment processed, retained,

remembered – then gone.

On;

off.

Birth;

death.

There’s an electrifying presence to a mortal soul,

switched alight as a cosmic self-reference;

the circuitry forms within and charges a body whole,

but its consciousness-ing is finite, ending in quiet severance.

Enter;

exit.

Receive;

release.

Every point in life is a surrendering act;

an arrival to this second, then the next, departing the last.

Our perception is always after the fact,

and so all that exists is only the present – not the future or past.

Materialise;

dissipate.

Tension;

resolution.

As reality appears and disappears in front of me,

I shed my last tear and tense my body through the portal.

I will miss the comfort of purgatory, but I must set free,

for life is impermanent, but the beauty to experience it is immortal.