Yet another deeply blessed collaboration with Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans of YACHT, two humans who’ve permanently lassoed my tender chest-muscle with their Soulful Intentions and Mind-melding Touch. Yacht has added a band to their melodic family and has dubbed the resulting creative effort as YACHT & The Straight Gaze. They’re currently flickering across Canada, en Tour, as only two breathless visionaries can, now with a band of exquisitely talented compatriots en tow.

This image is related, currently, to the new YACHT iTunes session of music. I styled it and the eternal Sarah Meadows photographed it. A primary reference was the gender-bending work of Cindy Sherman, and the overarching concept of boy and girl occupying the same place, erasing the hard-lined aesthetics of GENDER. Androgyny in all it’s foggy glory. Straight Gaze/Straight Gays/Who is Who/What is What. A late night spend in a dusty brick-encased room, shirts being swapped, air heavy with Love, we rolled out late-night with Purple-hued Hearts steeped en Gratitude.

Ok, please check out the links below to learn more about YACHT and the Straight Gaze, and also please review their tour schedule (found within said links). Please do whatever necessary to place yourselves in the path of these two Blessed Souls. You’ll walk away irreversibly altered in the most Cosmically Attuned fashion.

YACHT & The Straight Gaze PT. 1

YACHT & The Straight Gaze PT. 2

(Below please find a window-into-a-window of the night, Ms. Evans and me, halfway in. Photo: Claire L. Evans)