Arlo Parks

Thank you.

Thanks so much for having me.

Yeah, so I decided to wear things that friends of mine had made and all my little lucky charms.

So I'm wearing my Blue Burnham jewellery.

And then my friend Jawara created this hardware piecemeal Massive Attack shirts.

Because I do enjoy kind of wearing references on my chest, on my body.

And my friend Victoria made these parachute pants for me and these acne shoes.

So I think things that feel me and things that carry meaning today.

Yeah, and there's something to me about the kind of metallic quality in the hardware with the colors and the soft, I don't know, there's something about the soft and hard textures that really speaks to me and he's wonderful.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

I also feel like the way that they, you know, draw from Caribbean sound system culture, like UK hip hop and poetry, and even the, you know, the equipment they're using to create their music, it does feel like this blend or this collage of drawing together these different things to kind of have this like real kernel of truth.

Yeah, they're so inspiring.

Yeah, it's interesting that you do that too.

I feel like there are certain kind of sentences and fragments that seem like they repeat themselves and that I somehow see everywhere.

And I always note those down because I feel like it's clay for some kind of creation in the future.

Yeah.

I'm such a creature of habit.

We were talking before about, you know, people who sprawl and people who organize.

And I think having notebooks, I have the small skins of specific dimensions.

different colors for each one.