Raise Hell - from the Stray Hymns collection

This piece follows an old opossum standing at the edge of dead water, pulling sound from a worn accordion into an empty night. The scene is built around abandoned docks, still marshes, and the silence left behind in places long forgotten. A roadside musician shaped by long roads, cold nights, and old songs played too many times to count. There is no audience, no fire, and no place to arrive. Just noise crossing black water and fading into the dark. The distant houses and marshland were painted with softened edges and reduced contrast to reinforce distance and emptiness. Cold blues were balanced against the warmer reds and ochres of the accordion and mouth, holding the tension between silence and sound. A lone opossum, an old accordion, and noise dragged across dead water under a sleepless moon. Stray Hymns is an ongoing authorial series centered on wandering creatures, crooked folklore, old roads, sleepless nights, and forgotten places. By Paulo Coruja. All Rights Reserved.