and now for my next trick

its no secret i love the old timey stuff
as well as old magician posters so when
doing this poster for the wonderful tin sparrows
residency at the oxford arts factory i thought
it would be fun to play with these themes as well
as things that seem to be falling from the sky..
a concept thats been used on their upcoming
ep..

you have something on your.......

natural selection posters are always fun
and this came from a random doodle i did
on the bus..originally it was fox tail mo
and the person had the two opposing foxes tied
behind his head ..but this was hard to pull off
so squirrel's were next in line and seemed to work
a treat...( how old am i using expressions like that)

hold them or fold them

I have always enjoyed my working relationship/
friendship with the amazing sydney singer/sonwriter
jack carty through our work together on his ep and
recent single we share a drive to push ourselves
just that little bit further so i was excited to
see what we could do together for his upcoming album
"one thousand origami birds"



The trick was to have something that related to that very visual title but also not be obvious..this cave world had been an idea i had been trying to get going but never really found the right context until this..it was a case of taking from jacks lyrics about paper birds flying too close to the sun and then , boom, it hit me that the birds could be escaping this world only to sentenced to death for doing so..it was a wonderful and vivid picture that was placed in my head and the world flowed fast after that..
there is in fact atleast 10 other parts to this world that didnt make it to this world that i may blog about after its release









this last image is the back cover as a pure image without
the cave and explorer in front of it..it was a fave of mine
and i just wanted to share it here