I’m Carrie Graham—a Canadian songwriter, recording artist, writer, visual artist, and digital creator based in Victoria, British Columbia.
I’ve never been especially interested in staying inside one creative lane. This is where my songs, artwork, writing, photography, and occasional experiments live together.
Some projects begin with a melody, some with an image, and some with an idea I can’t leave alone. The medium changes, but the impulse is the same: make something honest, engaging, and worth sharing.
This is where I keep the things I’ve made, and a few of the stories behind them.
musicking
I’ve been writing songs for most of my life. Some are finished, some abandoned, some dragged around for years until they finally decided what they wanted to be. A few are still sitting on the curb waiting for me to pick them up and take them to a gig.
I was nominated for a Juno back in the day, then life did what life does: detours, disasters, reinventions, long silences, and the occasional stubborn return to the work.
Now I’m writing, recording, and producing my own material with AI-assisted tools as part of the process. The technology is new, but the songs are not. They still start with the same old human problems: longing, nerve, bad choices, good hooks, and the strange need to make something out of all of it.
I’ve been making visual things for as long as I’ve been making noise — paintings, drawings, photos, digital experiments, and the occasional object that refuses to fit neatly into a category.
The art tends to come from the same place as the songs: mood, colour, memory, contradiction, and the need to turn whatever is rattling around in my head into something visible.
Sometimes it’s pretty.
Sometimes it’s weird.
Sometimes it’s both.
arting
wording
There are too many words to fit them all into songs.
Lyrics, poems, fragments, personal essays, half-lit thoughts, and the occasional sentence that followed me around until I wrote it down.
Some of it rhymes.
Some of it’s confessy-cringey. Some of it just sits there looking suspicious.
Jumbles and jumbles of words.