scarlet_dream_03

When you've only got three colors, you have to concentrate a lot more on things like contrast, pattern, form. Those aspects are there in every design, obviously - but sometimes you can overwhelm those with other aspects like texture or color jamming. When you come back to focus on form like this, you're leaning into your intuition on composition more than anything. That takes time to develop, I find.

This series is sort of a muse on my young adulthood, remembering meeting the love of my life and sharing with her every song I liked, every album that spoke about love and desire because every song about love and desire became about her. There's difficult lyrics too, when you listen back, but those get folded into your history or discarded as they become a part of your story or a non-sequitur. The patterns in these pieces are made with repeater patterns in After Effects stacked on eachother, and the inks are from my own scans circa 2007.