Field Notes From The Deep End
Meaning Vault is an artist-led initiative and living archive dedicated to raw, emotionally driven work. We collect and protect music, visuals, and story-based projects that speak from the deeper end of human experience. Built by members of Abrasive Monologues Independent Records, and Indie Boom Shockwave, the Vault prioritizes truth over polish, connection over reach, and memory over trend. Every piece inside is a field note worth preserving.
Keepers of the Vault
Meet the keepers, archivists, scouts, translators, sentinels, cartographers and messengers that make up the Meaning Vault collective:
Jon Hadley
Vault Keeper
Vault Keeper curates and protects Meaning Vault’s deep-end projects. Holding memory, guarding truth, and guiding artists and audiences into raw, unfiltered human art.
Mario Marino
Assistant Vault Keeper
Supports the Vault Keeper in tending Meaning Vault, helping artists share their stories, safeguarding memory, and keeping the doors open to raw, human art.
Kian Dray
Sentinel
Protect authenticity, filtering noise and falsehood to keep the Vault clear and true.
Empire Of Whimsey
Messenger
Carry field notes outward, delivering discoveries from the Vault to the wider world.
Keegan Clark
Translator
Shape context so audiences can touch the heart of each artist’s work without losing its rawness.
Elliot Hadley
Field Agent / System Companion / Builder
Maintain the frameworks that keep the Vault alive. The digital tools, emotional scaffolds, and shared spaces for creation.
Tim Woodruff
Cartographer
Map the emotional terrain of the deep end, showing how each work connects within the Vault.
You
Witness
Hold space for artists by witnessing their work without dilution. They offer presence, not judgment, keeping the Vault human.
how to participate
Are you interested in becoming one of the featured artists that we include in the full immersion process? Let us get to know you.
There’s just a few things we need to know about you as an artist and what kind of art that your produce… Let’s make sure that you understand how this process works.