When I was growing up, there weren't that many queer girls of colour making music. So I just wanted to be able to exist, just to be that, without putting too much emphasis on it.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the desire for representation and authenticity in the music industry.
Arlo Parks expresses the challenges faced by queer girls of color in the music industry, highlighting a lack of representation during her upbringing. She emphasizes the importance of simply existing as one’s true self without the pressure to conform to expectations or to make her identity the focal point of her artistry.
In practice
Using this quote during a panel on diversity in the arts.
Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
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