This tiny illustration was drawn by the English artist Aaron Sewards. I'm not sure if Aaron has a magnifying glass, or large eyes, or just very small fingers. But he draws eensy-weensy windows, microscopic portholes into the world we already dwell in. His pictures remake our ordinary lives as sites of tenderness, care, and pattern. In his works, the details add up to something. Mixed-up visions and empty rooms become the places where our emotions have the space to breathe.

Aaron played for Raffi the music of Sleeping States months before the rest of the world (myself included) had heard of the man. He shared other secrets too. And so I was eager to ask Aaron to share a few more secrets with Said the Gramophone's readers & writers: to choose a few favourite songs and to make drawings, paintings and sketches that speak to his favour, that express his convictions in ink and line. These are the three songs he chose, and the images he created for each one.