2022
The Great Masquerade
As part of their new album, the band Jason Waterfalls assigned me to create an artwork for one of its songs, called “The Great Masquerade”.
The end result was on display at music venue/night club EKKO, along the other artworks made for the album.
Inspired by the song’s theme - gradually putting on a figurative mask, and forgetting who you really are - I wanted to use a similar development of ‘real’ turning into ‘fake’ in the making proces. I translated this in the contrast of analogue and digital design. After simply cutting and reassembling a face on an old magazine cover, I used these try-outs as an inspiration while further experimenting digitally.
The end result is a mysterious image of a woman with a pixelated version of herself as a mask. Her true expression is hidden behind the mask, making you wonder what her eyes are trying to say. The mask is built up by increasingly growing pixels, making the image gradually more simple; a shallow, fake version of herself.
The artwork on display at EKKO