My home city of Akron, Ohio is a city that once boomed from the rubber industry. There is now blight where factories once stood and overgrowth where canal shipments took place. So naturally, I feel a connection to the chapter “Rusty Kingdom” about Sealand. Being from a rust belt city myself, the idea of machinery being left to rot in nature and later to be reclaimed by a new group of people resonated with me. 

Much of the “Rusty Kingdom” chapter focused on the legal quagmire of Sealand, but what mesmerized me the most was the setting. I want my music to convey the feeling of this desolate land and show how being surrounded by the ocean can be equally terrifying and tranquil.

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