My video performance begins with a person’s hand (mine) opening a knife and starting to play with it. The face is unseen until fairly far in. The playing with the knife and implied intentional unanimity of the person who would choose to film this implies a glorification of knives and violence. The intense music also communicates this. However, once I drop the knife, the illusion is shattered. Clumsiness is implied, which implies comedic innocence, and the unanimity is broken when I come into frame to pick it up. As the work continues, it seems indeed this character does not really know what he’s doing with the knife. I do like the song, which may seem somewhat violent and scary to an unfamiliar listener, but the song just makes me want to relax and play air guitar. The knife is essentially an imaginary instrument I don’t know how to play. I’d like to learn how to play this song on guitar, but I can’t play guitar. It is somewhat self-depreciating.