Tuesday, 3 February 2009

'Freakout in a Moonage Daydream'

This is my poster for a 15 minute seminar that I have to do about my work as part of the Embroidery degree.

I've made it a relief drawing in reference to the diorama that I'd been planning in the last project. I had no idea how to construct this sort of pseudo frame, so it turned out wonky. but oh well. people sign up to the seminar by writing their names on the red triangles under the poster

The title is ripped from that David Bowie song.

trying to work out ways to use stitch and fabric as a drawing media




Here's an illustration I've done for Harlan Ellison's 1968 short story 'I Must Scream, and I Have No Mouth.'

In the story, a supercomputer made during the Cold War for peace switches and goes on a spiteful killing spree ridding the world of all humans except five. It's kept this group kept alive inside its 'belly' for 109 years so that it will always have a few humans left to torture.

This illustration is of a point when one of the characters, Benny, who is covered in scars from radiation poisoning, tries to escape and is made blind by the computer.

Uplifting stuff.