Braids TasteWatch at the source

Braids "Deep In The Iris" LP Out 04/28 on Arbutus Records / Flemish Eye.

We acknowledge the financial support of FACTOR, the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters.

Director's Statement: The concept for the video was born from a line in the chorus: "we experience the love that we think we deserve". It's a simple and eloquent lyric, one that I felt evoked a powerful sort of reflection and consideration. I was interested in how that line transcends the idea of romantic love, how it pushed the listener to consider the idea of love in much broader and more complex terms. To communicate this idea visually, the idea of nakedness came to mind immediately. Nudity is almost always sexualized in any sort of popular media, however the content of this track provided an opportunity to subvert that expectation – the focus instead placed upon nakedness in terms of honesty and vulnerability. I wanted these static nude portraits to act as their own relatively neutral canvases, creating the space for the viewer project the idea of the refrain –  "we experience the love that we think we deserve", onto these people, to consider/imagine the type of life these people have had, who and how they love and have been loved (friends, family, romantic partners), and ultimately, to come back to themselves regarding this same consideration. - Kevan Funk