My Body, As It Is — A Video Collage of Real Life
Not a music video. A memory mosaic. A body in bloom.
I didn’t film this with a full crew or a high-dollar lens.
I filmed this in stolen moments across Saint Petersburg — the pier, the bay, the Dali Museum glinting behind me, my office, the grass outside USF, the streets that know my name.
What you’re about to see isn’t a traditional music video. It’s something queerer, rawer, more me.
This is a strobe-lit body collage — a fractured, flickering, fast-cut mosaic of what it means to exist fully and unapologetically in this skin.
Each clip lasts less than two seconds.
Each frame holds a different angle of truth.
I’m lip-syncing to my own story — not performing it, but embodying it.
You’ll see me:
Flex in the gym
Laugh in the car
Paint my nails
Rollerblade toward the sun
Walk through corporate spaces like they belong to me
Take up space in public without apology
Every location shifts. The energy doesn’t.
Because the point is — this body is real everywhere. Not just when the lighting hits right or when the mood feels poetic.
🎥 The Editing Language
This video is built like memory:
Associative. Rhythmic. Full of flashes that don’t explain themselves but still land in the chest.
It doesn’t unfold. It collides.
Moments echo each other across time and setting — a gym wrist flick mirrors a nail file swipe. A tired stare becomes a smirk on the highway.
You don’t need a plot to feel the impact.
You just need a heartbeat.
🧍🏽♂️ The Body, As It Is
Every clip centers the body.
Not as a symbol. Not as a prop. But as the full architecture of the frame.
I’m not hiding. Not shrinking.
I’m dancing, stretching, laughing, stomping — present in all versions of me.
Goofy and glam. Tired and triumphant. Ordinary and divine.
All of it gets to exist.
Because that’s what embodiment means to me now:
Not a performance of strength.
But a messy, moving, glittergrit collage of truth.
🔗 Watch the Video
Watch the full video here →
Or scroll to the player below and experience it for yourself.
Then, maybe ask yourself:
Where does your body feel most real? And what would it look like if you filmed it?
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for seeing me.
— Adam Rye
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