Featured off Micah E. Wood’s 2019 released self-titled full length — the Baltimore artist/photographer/pop star presents the sensual and sophisticated visual for “Take It Slow” illustrated and animated by Pauline Tomasi. Wood's musical oeuvre oscillates between the intimate, observational anecdotals with dashes of humanist humors that play upon social truths. "Take It Slow" takes that narrative to candid places of expressions privy to only the involved romantic parties where exchanges of love, affection and care are enacted with earnest motions of sweet serenity and generous amounts of unabashed, unguarded and naked sincerity. Tomasi’s visual takes the song’s mood, movements and sensational substance into full account to create a high art visual that brilliantly compliments and expounds on the song’s boudoir lovers rock aesthetic.

Pauline Tomasi creates an exquisite visual production that comes to life like a reflective pool mirage springing to a liquid odyssey of endearing intimacy. The animation blends together a love story that connects ballroom dancing to an exotic spa-style romance for the ages that resonates to the outer edges of the cosmos. Watch renderings of a couple's fancy footwork, the abandon of a leisurely swim to constellations that spell out lyrical quips as images cascade in a gentle free play sequence of unbound beauty. The otherworldly aspects of taking the time to spend quality time with a significant other is showcased as an escape to a whole other dimension. Tomasi adapts all the underlying subtext and overtures of Wood's heartfelt track and creates an entire palatial universe that blends the heavens, earth, artifices and elements of nature into a special world inhabited only by an exclusively and loverly pair of hearts.

Micah E. Wood took the time to reflect on making the visual for “Take it Slow”:

When it came to making a music video for “Take It Slow,” one of my favorite songs off my self titled record, I realized I didn’t want to push the overtly sexy themes of the song. Instead I wanted to go more abstract, so I decided to work with my friend Pauline Tomasi, a French illustrator/animator. I wanted the video to capture her take on the song. With English being her second language, she could focus more on the song’s feeling and mood to create a piece that emphasized what the song meant to her, and I’m happy that she captured that with her surreal animation style.

Visual artist/animator/illustrator Pauline Tomasi shared the following exclusive insights:

It expresses the simple feeling that occurs when two dreamers eventually become lovers. I've tried to draw the poetry and the oneirism of it.

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