After months of ceaseless work to achieve the perfect result, dealing with constant revisions and adjustments to show her creative universe to the audience, Natisa Gogol is now presenting the most anticipated release of her career. Heavens Create, her new single and music video, tells the story of a profound connection forged by the heavens and is inspired by five Renaissance paintings: Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, Primavera by Botticelli, The School of Athens from the Raphael Rooms, and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck.
“My team and I waited nearly ten months for the final version, and, admittedly, there were some significant disagreements along the way. But in the end, I believe we achieved true art,” Gogol tells us when we ask her about the creative process of this just-released, stunning, arthouse cinema-style video. The Prague-based singer/songwriter, who was forced to flee her home in Kyiv upon the outbreak of war in Eastern Europe and turned her life upside down determined to continue pursuing her dreams, decided to return to her homeland, Lviv, together with a young Ukrainian director, Stas Morozov, to shoot the music video.
Using graphics to bring these paintings to life, enhancing the song's lyrics through these animated works, and adding a sense of grandeur and epic scale to the video, Heavens Create speaks of when two people meet and fall in love against all odds, seemingly by chance at first, but as they go deeper, it becomes clear it's far from accidental. “I've had this experience in my own life, so I know what I'm talking about,” Natisa says. “This video became the most complex and energy-intensive project for me. We experimented, took risks, and aimed for perfection,” she adds when asked about the music video that comes along with the song.