Illustrated submission for album release poster for Linkin Park’s The Hunting Party (2014).
Project rationale:
Linkin Park’s founding motives for producing the album were to re-invigorate the genre with its lost energy and creativity. In this context, Linkin Park—the hunting party—are a contextual metaphor for the hunters, the quarry their demographic.
Music as an escapism art-form enables the auditor to detach themself from the inflexible structures of day-to-day responsibilities.
To epitomise the regimes of; responsibility, conformity or compliance it was felt the daily commute adequately illustrated the paradox of the real-world—the working-world. Commuters, particularly in a city environment, march in uniformed compliance so their respective places of work may benefit from cog-like efficacy, contributing to the hive machine.
Antlers are totemic of the hunt and conjure immediate conceptions of prey. By implementing this symbol, it allows a narrative to play out around the individual amidst the crowd. Linkin Park are the hunters, their weapons the energy and creativity manifest in their music.
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I felt it strangely fitting producing this piece in parallel with your typically un-inspiring 35hour + day job. In which circumstance, rendering the piece with office stationary in order to develop my alternate (creative) mind became an anecdotal metaphor of mirror qualities to those attempted to be communicated by the piece itself.
