Written and recorded in November 2018 in my home studio.  Playing the role of the Upside Down Man, it's fun in a song and would be terrifying in reality! That's why art is so powerful.

Upside Down Man

Helene Augustine is the musical project for the visual artist Jenn Myers, based in southern Virginia.  These are like queer prayers - the best form to express the never-ending rhyme/devotion that inhabits my being. Tragedy and miracle expressed as heartbreak and devotion.  All of it.  My version of ecstatic poetry.  I began this practice with a Casio keyboard and have now graduated to a Yamaha P45 digital piano. Using very basic chord structures for accompaniment, Helene Augustine performs with the borrowed/inherited name of my great great-aunt who died in 1901 at the age of 18 in Austin, TX.