According to director Hayley Morris, she made her video for “Joy,” a delicate song from Iron And Wine’s new album Ghost On Ghost, by “projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes.” This sounds like an incredible amount of work! And in so doing, she created a sense of fragile and otherworldly beauty that she couldn’t have achieved if she hadn’t hand-made the whole thing. Watch it below.

(via NPR)

Ghost On Ghost is out 4/16 on Nonesuch. Stream it here.