Moon Hang
Artist: Matchbox 20
Song: 3am
Album: Yourself or someone like you
Model: Ezzie
Location: Silbury Hill, Wiltshire UK

3am is a song about a girl we all knew/know. The one that’s beautiful, but flawed. Flaky and a little bit ‘out there’ but serene, gentle, soft and well meaning. The song’s depth comes from the inspiration to write it about his Mother who’d been diagnosed with cancer. It’s about life and death. It’s about me too, how I now view life. We can all afford to be a bit ‘different’ because it doesn’t matter. We as individuals don’t matter. We live, we’ll die and nothing’s changed. Rather than being a sorrowful song or thought, I find it uplifting and exhilarating. It provides a freedom around life and focusses on the now. Do things now, grab life and its wondrous beauty now, live it to the full and don’t look back. It has a limit in time.

This line from the song is the one I single out when I sing along to it. We’re governed by science and reason, isn’t it good to just go out there and celebrate silliness, something harmless and yet liberating?

We got to the legendary Silbury Hill late one night in July, around 1am. I’d planned for some time where the full moon would be in relation to the spiritual hill and it was both low and in the right place. Importantly too, the weather was set to be clear.

I loved the idea of the white dress, the leaping, the seemingly silliness of jumping around in the moonlight. It summed up the song and the way life should be led. Interestingly, Ezzie was exhilarated during the shoot, she loved the carefree idea and the surprisingly calm feeling of the venue that seemed to lift and excite us! We shot tons of images, I shot the moon on its own and then the landscape and then Ezzie as they needed different exposures. I then blended them in post-production. We went home singing and laughing…