Come Play With / #017 / NOV2021

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ART WALL

FRANCIS OF DELIRIUM I am Jana, I'm the singer and songwriting in the band Francis of Delirium. I've kept little journals throughout my life, mainly because it was very much encouraged by my mom to draw and create from an early age. She's an art teacher so there was always art around the house. It's mainly something I just do for fun, making art is really just something I do for myself. I find it's a good way to process and reflect and find inspiration. Most of the time in order to like a song and feel connected to it I need to have some sort of visual attached to the track otherwise it sort of just floats away. Now that I've realized that, I've tried to be a bit more proactive and draw while working on a song in order to stay connected to it for longer, which means more sketchbook drawing and

painting etc. All that being said all the things that I'm showing here have nothing to do with any songs I've written. I also just genuinely enjoy going to museums. That's one of my favourite things about traveling for music. The best part is the actual show, but the second best part is that if we have some extra time in a city and it's a cool city they often have really good museums I can go to. My drummer and bassist hate museums so it's a nice little decompression thing for me to go and do on my own and it keeps me inspired. Generally I tend to only really like more modern stuff, like 1890s-2000s. I recently 12

made the mistake of going to the National Gallery in London and it was mainly old old stuff which was ok, but not


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