At the beginning of Bat for Lashes’s visual for “At Your Feet,” we only see the musician Natasha Khan’s hands—one balled into a fist, pressing and twisting into the palm of the other like a mortar and pestle. As the camera pulls out to reveal her standing in front of a vintage microphone, bathed in blue light against a Lynchian red curtain, she twists her arm upwards, swirling it through the air as if catching and releasing an invisible plume of smoke.
It was almost like I had woken up from a kind of amnesia, and it broke me open in a way I wasn’t expecting. I felt this overwhelming spiritual awakening, where I wasn’t just connected to Delphi, but by being inside of me, and by birthing her, she was like a conduit to this sacred place. And then following that, the devotional practice of loving another being that much made me realize we’re all capable of that, and it gave me hope in human nature.