Psychosis

By far this was the most complex CD cover art project—not independently from its emotional connotations, as a result of my personal feelings during the long, muggy months of the wintertime 2009–2010. Culminated in a suicide, the life—and most obviously the few works—of Sarah Kane inspired the collection’s idea amongst my permanent mood. (The psychotic nightmares and indescribable fear were also not unknown to me, therefore the dedication on the inner sleeve.) Since I have already been experimenting with the mirroring techniques before, I created some scary, but—at least for a potential patient—identifiable objects, originally taken about junks, forks, or other everyday materials. These images feature on the front, back and inlay artworks as well, as on the disc. But this was the first time, when I decided to fill a missing gap with the creation of a booklet for the compilation. The inlay presents some lyrics of the—mostly avantgarde or obscure—performers straddling the inkspot-like creatures magnified from the same Context Free Design Grammar drawing I used for the World Literature Book Series too. I choose the well known ChaletComprimé typeface—created by Paul van der Laan for both the cover and the booklet.