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I’ve been traveling for forty months
251 miles
Forty cities
Every continent
Over 12000 nautical miles
Across five oceans and twenty other seas

I’ve met vigilante conservationists, wreck-thieves, maritime mercenaries, defiant whalers, offshore repo-men, sea-bound abortionists, clandestine oil dumpers, elusive poachers, abandoned seafarers and cast-adrift stowaways

Viewed as one, this voyage had taken me to places so foreign that to experience them felt like space travel as I witnessed things;
Piracy, whaling, slavery, privateers;
That I had previously assumed were fully locked in the past

At a time when we know exponentially more about the world around us, with so much at our fingertips and nothing but a swipe away, we know shockingly little about the sea

For most of us, the sea is simply a place we fly over, a broad canvas of darker and lighter blues
Though it can seem vast and all-powerful, it is vulnerable and fragile in part because environmental threats travel far
Transcending the arbitrary borders map-makers have applied to the oceans over the centuries

For all it’s breathtaking beauty, the ocean is also a dystopian place; home to dark inhumanities
The rule of law - often so solid on land, bolstered and clarified by centuries of careful wordsmithing, hard-fought jurisdictional lines, and robust enforcement regimes - is fluid at sea
If it’s to be found at all…

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from A Metaphor for Infinity (Inspired by ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ a book by Ian Urbina), released May 5, 2023

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Tuvaband Norway

I produce dark indie alternative pop rock folk shoegaze post-rock quiet noisy minimalistic maximalistic lofi music.

‘Something Good’ from my upcoming album is out 30.09.22!

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