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Person No. 001 / Proof of Work
01

Proof
of work
is what
survived.

brandB is a living archive of films, images, objects, performances, scripts, failures, recoveries and unauthorized work.
Brandon Burkley / brandB
File 03.
02 Archive
03 Index
04 Unauthorized
001 Archive 002 Work 003 Objects 004 Contact
01.

Index of a life

The story does not need to be told in a straight line. It just needs a system. Each era becomes a file. Each file holds evidence.

001

Early signals

Marathon, Stoney Creek, Brisbane, Halloween costumes, the first camera, and the belief that worlds could be made by hand.

Childhood
002

Lost tapes

Home films, wrestling footage, Spider Man experiments, family support, ridicule, and the first understanding of having a vision.

Film
003

No fixed address

Growing up too fast, moving out young, anger, survival, rebellion, and the negative space that shaped the form.

Survival
004

Noise before image

Wednesday Hero, Aorta, Agincourt, Georgia Home Boy, touring, screaming, writing, and learning how to put feeling into sound.

Music
005

Proof under pressure

Cancer, 15 Keys, community, sold out screenings, one screening in 3D, and the proof that the work could exist.

15 Keys
006

The wound

Luxeon, ambition, money spent, scenes unfinished, silence after impact, and the strange education of almost making it.

Failure
007

Effigy

Babcia, cameras, computers, YouTube, 14 Keys, Eastlink, fan films, and the company built from memory.

Company
008

brandB

VIP, XPRY, garments, objects, barcodes, green light, broken rules, and the person becoming the platform.

Now
02.

Work files

Browse by medium when the story gets too heavy. Films, music, images, objects, and writing all get their own door.

Motion files

Films

15 Keys, 14 Keys, Shattered Dawn, Scream Social, A Starless Sky, D.I.G., Prodigal, and unfinished monuments.

Noise archive

Music

Wednesday Hero, Aorta, Agincourt, Georgia Home Boy, Brandon Burkley, lyrics, recordings, and ghosts from the band years.

Still image

Photo

Campaigns, behind the scenes, portraits, process images, and visual evidence.

Physical work

Objects

Clothing, canvas, clocks, rugs, props, garments, and things that should not exist yet.

Text fragments

Writing

Scripts, lyrics, notes, manifestos, page scraps, and the thoughts behind the work.

Featured file

The person becomes the platform

brandB is not only a clothing line. It is a working archive of becoming. The films, songs, failures, objects, photos, and garments all point to the same idea.

Monument file 005

15 Keys / Proof under pressure

During cancer treatment, the work became more than an idea. It became evidence. Friends, family, community, borrowed time, and stubborn belief turned into a feature film.

This page should hold the trailer, stills, press, credits, old posters, theatre memories, clapperboard photos, and the truth of what it cost to keep creating.

Written by
Brandon Burkley
Era
Cancer treatment
Evidence
Sold out screenings
Status
Completed
03.

Collections and objects

Wearables, physical artifacts, product experiments, and limited ideas. Not merch. Evidence you can hold.

001 Wearable

VIP

Victory In Play. The king before the crown. A collection about becoming before anyone gives you permission.

002 Wearable

XPRY

Time, decay, endings, deadlines, youth, death, and the pressure to make something before the clock takes it.

003 Artifact

Objects

Rugs, clocks, bricks, shovels, props, and physical work from the archive.

004 Philosophy

Proof of work

The recurring stamp. The years. The footage. The failures. The thing that proves you were here.

Person No. 001 / Artist statement

I learned to build worlds because I did not fit inside one.

brandB is not the clothing brand. It is the personal system holding the films, images, objects, performances, scripts, failures, recoveries and strange proofs of work.

brandB / living archive
Film / Music / Objects / Survival
© Brandon Burkley