Broderick
Without music I am nothing. It’s a main stay of my life like oxygen, sleep, tea or pixels. One musician who's abilities and genuine craft I particularly admire and who is regularly audible in my headphones is Peter Broderick. I have been massively inspired and moved by his compositions and songs for some time. They have aided my own work and thinking so I wanted to offer something back in my own medium. Hopefully capturing the essence of the musician and his music.
I needed a conduit. For this I visualised Broderick as water, which I found referenced in lots of his work. This really was apt as Broderick’s music evokes deep feeling on so many levels. Colours and tones helped me portray the waves and depths of the musicians craft and the feeling he encodes within. I didn’t want a horizontal form as how one composition is interpreted in one moment by a listener can be very different at another time, or to another, hence colour being scattered and un-ordered. Which also reflects the mood of the listener in their own time and space.
Once completed this piece was sent to the musician in Portland, USA. I wanted it to be the only version of the final piece. A true one of a kind just like the musician himself. I was lucky enough to meet Peter at a gig in the U.K, I asked if he had the piece up and he told me he did. While on tour a few days later Peter kindly sent me a picture he'd taken just after Christmas of a friend recording in his studio. There on the wall in the background was the final piece. I was honored. The piece he had was simply a print as over A3+ on paper but I always imagined it at the scale shown so thought I’d d the piece justice visualising to how I would have liked to have done.
Thanks for the constant inspiration and perfection Peter, I have no doubt in saying you are a genius and a craftsman :) If you haven't heard this guys work yet please visit his site on the link below.
Justin Robert Price
creative / concepts / design / art / thinking.