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Writing, music, and art from Ian Springham.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the permanent home for everything written, sung, and painted here — the memoir, the music, the paintings that go with them. Individual pieces get published out to Medium and Substack as they’re ready, but this is where they all live.<\/p>\n

Between The Cracks<\/a><\/h2>\n

An autobiographical memoir tracing a childhood in the care system through to recovery and emigration, structured around the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.<\/p>\n

CaptSpaceBat<\/a><\/h2>\n

Music and poetry — ambient electro goth, darkwave, baroque pop.<\/p>\n

Gallery<\/a><\/h2>\n

Original paintings made alongside the writing.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere<\/h2>\n

Medium<\/a> · Substack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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