So I’ll admit it.

Recently, I’ve been hugely influenced by the most excellent Netflix series based in Germany called Dark. Although the name is wonky, the show itself is a convoluted time travel yarn with ample heapings of nuclear reactors gone bad, confusing relationships with people from different dimensions, and my favorite time period: The 80’s.

What I really dig about the show is the opening sequence. I tend to watch it every time I watch the show, much to the chagrin and whinging (whining) of my wife. The sequence of every season carries the same style: everything is mirrored as if appearing in an alternate dimension. It’s a very cool and meaningful effect that I think is probably lost on most viewers, or perhaps I’m reading into it too deep, but that’s what I get out of it.

I wrote the record for Cubicle’s Entropy over December of 2019, it was still pre-pandemic, pre-racial tension, pre-protesting, and pre-California fires. By the time it was in the can and the video was to be produced for Chrysalis, I recalled both the meaning of the record as well as that Dark introduction sequence.

To me, Chrysalis is not about who we are, but what we become. And to understand what we become, we must comprehend the polarity in all of us: Black and white, good and evil, dark and light. That’s the reason I kept it in black and white, by the way. To drive the point that we tend to see everything in black and white, but it actually happens in shades of grey.

And what of Chrysalis? It’s a changing. It’s difficult, and often painful. This video tries to find the presentation of those changes and the journey it takes to navigate them.