scarlet_dream_02

Black and red and white are the only colors allowed. First red, then black, then white - then another cycle.

It's strange that there was a very specific era where that theme could be seen in so many places if you were fixated on it, like I was. The White Stripes whole catalogue, obviously - but also Interpol's first albums were in that palette, The Black Keys first albums used it a lot, Franz Ferdinand's second album - I could go on, a lot of what they're calling "post-punk revival" on wikipedia that we just called Indie or Garage. It was such a stark mood that brought together everything from the Detroit blues to NYC cocaine subculture - and even if you weren't a part of those scenes it tickled the imagination. Songs and ideas were wild and abstract and talked about love and longing but all of it parsed in cryptic tales and phrases that were too old for us to understand or too strange.

I was in the habit of experimenting with inks, paper textures, press-on font sheets etc. The graphic elements in the dream sequences series draw from my own archives of ludicrously high-res scans.