M Y D C M B R by Nashid Chroma

Rest in Power Chester Bennington. Linkin Park was the first time I ever connected with music emotionally, and I associate their music with my first real group of friends from when I was in grade 6. I had the opportunity to see them in concert back in 2013, but I had a work conflict that made me sell my tickets. I regret not going to the concert to this day...

For the piece, I used the suagaro cactus flowers to represent his Phoenix upbringing. And then added a glitch effect to them to capture the band's use of synths. Their sound aesthetic is a tension between gentle and aggressive, so I named the painting M Y D C M B R - one of their gentlest songs and my personal favorites to juxtapose against him screaming.

Furthermore, I tinted the flowers to gold and gray to allude to Meteora's colours. And finally, I arranged the flowers to resemble a wing, a nod to the dragonfly wings on the Hybrid Theory cover.