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Besides being a theatrical designer for this Berkeley CA. theater company, I designed the logo and associated art for some their marketing.
Most recently I contributed this cover to "Shakespeare's Greatest Hits", a CD of music based on lyrics of his time or found within plays by the bard.
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
The bodies are those of a Beatles cover band and the heads are clipped from various portraits that have surfaced over the years purporting to be the most likely likeness of the WIlliam Shakespeare.
Since 1985, under the auspices of EYECon, I have produced a series of works based on the repurposing of (ahem) icons.
In 1999, EYEConOClast launched with
"Elvised Nixon & Dicked Presley", a work based on the most requested item from the U.S. National Archives, Elvis posing with Nixon in the Oval Office. Says alot about Americans, says I.
It started with a simple enough cutting-pasting-flipping-blending of the faces onto the opposing head. I was struck with how unfamiliar yet soothing the effect was. Elvised Nixon seems vaguely Clintonesque and Dicked Presley bears a striking resemblance to Keith Richards.
Going too far, I created a movie of the faces morphing slowly into each other. At the end the movie snaps back to the begining for a jarring effect. Keith into Elvis is OK but Bill into Dick still makes me twitch.
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A mailer I designed for a staged reading series.
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A poster for the staged reading series.
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