2023 June 14
ANKH is the story about Civil Rights on a Human Scale as told through the eyes of two friends: Shelly “Traction” Jones and Scott “Splinter” Owens. They’re friends who see the world very differently. Traction believes there’s a future, while Splinter dwells on what was.
The project’s philosophy: it takes one person to make a change and two to start a revolution.
ANKH | Scott “Splinter” Owens
Several people in grade school through college were just like Splinter–we probably all know someone like him. Their underlying stories were remarkably similar: they grew up in an absolute train wreck of a home. All of them had hearts of gold. But, because they were misfits, authority figures didn’t like them–one of the many reasons I got along well with each and every one of them.
Where they diverged was based on their own personal motivation to a large extent as well as help from their friends and plain-old luck. Today some are successful in ways that are meaningful to them. Others couldn’t pull themselves out of the hole dug for them.
Traction is the type of person who would help Splinter with one caveat: he has to put in the effort to be a better person if he can. She’s well aware from her own life that sometimes people get dealt such a poor hand that they may not know where to start or are simply incapable of helping themselves due to no fault of their own.
ANKH | Wild Jackass
Splinter is all hard edges. As you can imagine, the rock music he sings doesn’t pull any punches. He says what’s on his mind.
In the Wild Jackass video excerpt, Splinter shows us his destitute origins and why that leads him to make desperate decisions. All the while, he dreams of what he really wants from life. After a particularly harrowing experience, he makes a difficult life decision to put himself on a path where he has a chance to reach what he longs for. But all isn’t what it seems.
The first part of his story is reflected in the first song we released for him: Wild Jackass, and the accompanying music video.
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