ARISE (1990)
Mixed media - 20" x 20"
I took the opportunity with this commission—an album cover for Sepultura—to experiment and have fun.
After completing a small stack of tone renderings of textures and distorted faces, I photocopied them, cut them out, and recombined them. 1/3
I then had the assemblage photographed, and a sepia-toned print was made of it in the appropriate dimensions. Using the sepia photoprint as my "underpainting," I finished the painting in my regular acrylic paints. It was an enjoyable excursion into strange territory for me. 2/3
I listened to this on cd a lot back in the ‘90s and, as tradition warrants, stared at this demented cover image trying to make sense of it. And the same with your painting used on Obituary’s “Cause of Death” album. Amazingly, you created the album art for two of the greatest metal releases ever
