The song is rooted in Waldman’s adolescence, when he began frequenting clubs in New York at the age of fifteen. During those nights, he repeatedly noticed a young man his own age who usually appeared alone and spoke very little. ‘ALABASTER’ uses the distance between the two young men as the foundation for a broader analysis of appearance, silence, and the limits of perception. Those drawings became the genesis of the poem that eventually grew into ‘ALABASTER,’ connecting the track to his long-standing practice as a poet and visual artist. Through electronic textures, poetic imagery, and visual memories, ‘ALABASTER’ explores how distance can reshape the way we perceive moments from the past.