Ilana Kaplan Kelsey Lu didn’t expect to be in the Cayman Islands this long. The orchestral pop iconoclast had envisioned staying there for a short window, leaving, coming back and bringing other collaborators down to work with her.
Then Covid-19 happened, and she’s been staying at Palm Heights hotel alone (other than with her partner) for an artist-in-residence program, during which a few artists could come and create on the property.
Palm trees, blue skies – there are, perhaps, worse places to be stranded.Through the resort’s residency, she was meant to be developing her second album and finding inspiration while “engaging with the local environment or heritage of islands”.
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