To Cover or Not to Cover - This is the question?

"Take it slow."

This is the advice I have received from my most beloved friends. And this whole question of modesty is one that is close to my heart. I mean look at me, you can see from my other blogs that I have not been one to be ashamed of my own appearance or embarassed about people seeing me in a pop culture state of dress/undress. As a singer/songwriter I have gone through many transitions artistically that have been coloured by my life experience. My most recent EP 'Once Bitten...[Twice Sha]' has been the most documented of these phases, and one in which I have been blessed to have been given a real purity of expression by those I have worked with, Andy Touch my producer, Donato Cinicolo and Momoko Abe with the video (extra photography by Antonio Casiero), and Pete at Circadisc. My heart is full of gratitude even as I type those names. But with the arrival of 2010 I enter yet another phase which remains as yet undefined. In 2007 I 'covered' for a period before it began to feel like a sentence and I felt my sincerity was compromised. However, this year, unexpectedly I find myself drawn again to that meditative form of dress. My love of styling is well reported but I have never had a photographic record of my foray into the world of headcovering. I recorded in my blog 'My Inner Human Life' that I had not long ago the urge to shave off my hair as a kind of spiritual surrender and cleansing. However, my instinct told me to apply the spiritual concept without approaching asceticim. So, prompted by my friend Ali Alimashoor I have again began to experiment. Herein are the results of that. There feels to be a certain conflict in my creativity in terms of music and my tentative approach to modesty, but where will I settle?

Stay tuned...