In “When Nothing Else Will” Matthew Hayos (aka Erik) continues to use lyrical surrealism and poetic algorithm to explore the power of transmutation. Shadow to light, lead to gold, vibration to matter, themes of ceremonial magic, technology and consciousness are delicately interwoven throughout a journey into the depths of mind, body and all its illimitable imagination. Making art becomes a matter of our survival as Matthew’s poetry not only transcends the divine, it becomes a necessary sustenance, with mesmerizing and inescapable meditations on nature, sexuality, dreams, magick, faith, politics and human civilization.