311 2016 at The Civic Theatre

2016 at The Civic Theatre in San Diego

Michael Straczynski

and a favorite quote from Jack White

You’ll need both if you’re going to survive in this world

My thinking relates to the title of Dave's most recent album "away from the world" and the idea that artists often seek isolation from the rest of the world

311 2016 at The Civic TheatreInitially, I wanted to make a boombox encased in amber as reference to 80s 90s music devices and their relative extinction. When I started piecing the image together I felt I wasn't getting enough contrast and abandoned the idea in favor of a more graphic solution. I struggled with how to handle areas where text was written on the boombox and ultimately decided to put all of it in braille. Clearly, this was the same person who made the Close