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Alpha The Wolf Guards a Cold Night Marina With a Yellow Corvette for "Yacht Watch"

January 13, 2025, 9:00 AM CT · 2 min read

Yellow Corvette. Marina lights. Cold water.

Yacht Watch is five frames shot at Four Corners Marina on J. Percy Priest Lake, catalogued Jan. 13, 2025, split between a yellow C7 Corvette parked nose-out on a ribbed concrete boat ramp and the rock shelf below the lit marina across the water. Black fur-collared coat over a black tee, white camo cargo pants and white boots, a long black bat carried through the frames by the water - a standalone shoot, not to be confused with the $laves video shoot at the same marina. He posted from the shoot: "We have much work to do, the sun rises still... The VOID cannot be contained!" (view the post)

A yellow Chevrolet Corvette photographed head-on at night with both doors swung open and headlights burning white, parked on ribbed concrete with red underglow spilling onto the ground and a dark treeline behind

The car half is short and static - doors up, headlights burning white, a wash of red underglow on the concrete, Alpha in the driver's seat looking out through the open door, then sat sideways with a strapped utility bag across his lap. Then it moves down to the waterline.

Alpha The Wolf sitting sideways in the Corvette seat with his legs out toward the open door, one hand at his chin, black tee and white and black camo cargo pants with a strapped bag across his lap

On the rock the frame goes quiet and cold. He hunches over the upright bat with the fur hood pushed up around his face, the marina a scatter of light across flat black water. A couple of frames are left deliberately motion-smeared, the figure and the bat dragging into a blur.

Alpha The Wolf hunched forward on a rock with his head down and both hands wrapped around an upright black bat, fur hood pushed up around his face, still black water and a distant lit marina behind

The yellow C7 is the most repeated object in the catalogue. It runs from a lakeside boat ramp to a rooftop parking deck to a golden-hour church lot, and eventually headlines its own single, "C7," shot at night with the hood and hatch thrown open. Here it idles on a ramp while the shoot walks off to stand over the water.

Alpha The Wolf standing on a flat limestone ledge at the water's edge holding the long black bat angled down to the rock, long black coat and chunky white boots, a lit boat dock across the water behind him

What "Yacht Watch" means

There is no yacht. There is a marina full of other people's boats, a borrowed car parked like a getaway, and one figure on a rock with a bat, watching the slips. The title reads as a job - the night shift nobody assigned, standing guard over money that is not yours on water that does not care. In the wolf's scripture the VOID "opened its maw and promised to consume all," and a cold marina after midnight is a fair picture of it: everything valuable moored and dark, and something out on the rocks keeping count.