I don’t really consider myself a visual artist, but I do create visual art, mostly as covers for my own artistic releases, go figure.
Story time.
When I was a younger me, I completed exactly half of a commercial photography course. Unfortunately I gravitated way more towards the editing side than the actual photography, but I also never got into the advanced editing courses.
So I had limited editing skills to begin with, and I taught myself a whole bunch of new tricks through trial and error. Over a decade later we’ve come full circle, bad editing has gone from being relegated to niche design blogs, to being a mainstream art form. The don’ts of one art form are the musts of another.
While my work would get lumped in with mildly unsettling liminal space art and wacky Frutiger aero fare, I mostly take inspiration from the early Tim & Eric aesthetic, that intentional unintentionally bad mocking of locally produced infomercials and 90s shopping catalogs. That VHS aesthetic without crossing into analog horror.
My mashups are 100% built from royalty free stock photos from pexels; unfortunately most of the credit to the original photographers is lost to time though I’m working to rectify that.
