PUNKS IS HIPPIES

This is the sixth piece for the year 2012, before I stop and start thinking "really hard" about what I'm "trying to say" with my art. I've been thinking about small stylistic changes.

This drawing is much more direct than many I have been doing this year. There are drawings based around war and dismemberment, and there are drawings based on utopia. The latter are obviously going to reference Bosch, but also GISM and flux of pink indians. The utopia drawings are much more organic and simple, they don't have a lot of right angles and hard lines (save for the text) because they are devoid of the icons and structures humans have made. They have more plants and animals and are "organic".

Also, there is some Darkthrone in there, hence the Fenriz gag I posted previously.

FENRIZ

Too old, too cold.

ASH BORER

Hello!

It's great when things go great. Ash Borer pressed a reissue of their demo LP, and they went all out. It is letterpressed, I believe it's also foilstamped, and their is a hand screened print of a drawing I made for this release, and it's 12x24.

It's a beautiful package. Also, the music is amazing.

http://dekorlabor.blogspot.de/2012/03/ash-borer-demo-lp-cover-siebdruck.html

http://psychicviolence.bigcartel.com/product/ash-borer-demo-lp-pre-order

You can view the LP art, and you can (and should) also order one.

Many thanks to Kyle for being a hoot to work with.

WAR

This is the 5th of 8 or so pieces in the "new body of work". This drawing is about war; most of the pieces I've completed this year are pairs which show one theme spread over two drawings. This drawing borrows from the epic poem Beowulf, the imagery of Infest, Systematic Death, Insect Warfare, Crash Worship, Durer and the lyrics of Insect Warfare and Seized. Seized were from Quebec and played sludge in the late nineties. They played that sludge on three basses. I don't think anyone can top that. There will be another war piece of the same size, using Tolkien for the text.

#4

This is the fourth piece I've done for the series I'm working on, based loosely around Durer's Apocalypse series. This drawing was unusual for me because the template/basis for it was simply a handful of landscape photographs. There are going to be two contrasting mini-sets I'm doing within the series, one focusing on nature in its untouched state, and another on humanity's structures. This pictures belongs to the first mini-set; there are no people in it, no buildings, very few right angles. This was a very different piece to draw.

TWSD 1

LICH KINGS

Hello.

I'm doing more works based on the Lich. The lich is also combined with the structures and insitutions of man, rigidity and altering the natural world. This allows for drawings with a greater emphasis on hard angles, symmetry, symbols and architecture-like geometry.

The bottom of this drawing is based on Infest's Slave LP, though the actual LP isn't that yellow. The middle half of the drawing uses quartz crystals as the basis for ruined buildings. Apart from the lich theme, Zoroastrian funeral rituals inspired the piece; large structures called Dakhma are built to house the dead as they decompose. This is done so that neither earth nor fire is polluted by the corpse, which is picked clean by vultures and rain.

It's actually a lot more complicated than that, but I'm an artist, not an anthropologist.