"Ash Wednesday" is my liturgy of a breakdown, a project where I document systemic decay by fusing industrial, geological, and commercial imagery. I frame interpersonal conflict as an inevitable, cosmic cycle rather than a random event, contrasting the heavy, sacred gravity of the Ash Wednesday prayer—"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return"—against the pathetic, mundane degradation of a discount bin cake. By blending sharp, ballistic language with raw themes of existential exhaustion, I have meticulously mapped out an inevitable collapse. This composition serves as the definitive structural anchor for my two-song EP, Angels Watch Like Television, effectively elevating what began as a personal narrative into a broader, high-stakes reflection on the nature of internal erosion and the cycle of returning to dust.more