311 My thinking relates to the

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

DC Pierson

I also thought it striking to blend my older mosaic approach with my more recent style

Michael Straczynski

311 My thinking relates to theInitially, 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