Winnipeg's Begonia has shared a video for new single "Heaven," which arrives on the heels of the video for "Fortified Bond," her collaboration with fellow Winnipegger Anthony OKS.
About the delicate, pulsing new track, Begonia's Alexa Dirks said:
When I was a kid I thought I knew a lot about everything. I was taught to believe that there was always a right or wrong and beyond that, that there was a heaven and hell waiting for us after we die and we just had to live our lives accordingly to end up in either place. I had a lot of fear of screwing up and a lot of fear of the unknown.
As I've grown, all of those binary ways of thinking have more or less been shattered. I've come to understand that I'll always be searching and that there's a lot of beauty to that. I still think about what happens after we die but I feel more curious about it than I feel afraid or certain of it. I think this song speaks to that doubt and curiosity: thoughts I used to struggle with but now fully embrace
The song comes attached to a video courtesy of Gwen Truntau and Mike Maryniuk, and finds Dirks wandering the same rural Manitoba property on which she wrote "Heaven" years earlier.
"I had asked Gwen to meet with me to talk about video ideas and I had mentioned that I wanted to be in the back of a truck," Dirks said about the video. "She said 'why don't we make the back of the truck your bedroom?' and then we just kept riffing from there. The property we filmed on had so much space to work with and sweet animals to film. I truly hope there are regal donkeys and fluffy chickens in the afterlife."
Check it out below.
About the delicate, pulsing new track, Begonia's Alexa Dirks said:
When I was a kid I thought I knew a lot about everything. I was taught to believe that there was always a right or wrong and beyond that, that there was a heaven and hell waiting for us after we die and we just had to live our lives accordingly to end up in either place. I had a lot of fear of screwing up and a lot of fear of the unknown.
As I've grown, all of those binary ways of thinking have more or less been shattered. I've come to understand that I'll always be searching and that there's a lot of beauty to that. I still think about what happens after we die but I feel more curious about it than I feel afraid or certain of it. I think this song speaks to that doubt and curiosity: thoughts I used to struggle with but now fully embrace
The song comes attached to a video courtesy of Gwen Truntau and Mike Maryniuk, and finds Dirks wandering the same rural Manitoba property on which she wrote "Heaven" years earlier.
"I had asked Gwen to meet with me to talk about video ideas and I had mentioned that I wanted to be in the back of a truck," Dirks said about the video. "She said 'why don't we make the back of the truck your bedroom?' and then we just kept riffing from there. The property we filmed on had so much space to work with and sweet animals to film. I truly hope there are regal donkeys and fluffy chickens in the afterlife."
Check it out below.