About

Action figure in laundry.

A Start to Coming Back to Life is an interdisciplinary work composed of three parts: an album, a physical magazine, and a set of digital interactions.

The project began with the music—ten narrative pieces written from lived experience, exploring how meaning is made after rupture.

From that work, the magazine emerged, expanding the personal into the political and situating individual struggle within broader cultural and social structures.

The digital interactions followed as a way of inviting participation, shifting the reader into a more active role and extending reflection beyond the page.

Underlying all three forms is a shared belief: art functions as connective tissue. Ideas encountered through creativity are often absorbed differently than those presented through instruction or analysis. They arrive indirectly, slipping beneath defenses, and settling where change is slower, but deeper.


The Artist

Marshall Jacklin at the piano.

A Start to Coming Back to Life was made by Toronto-based creator Marshall Jacklin. His practice spans music, writing, and design to shape spaces of reflection and participation.