“YGT – Sinking Ship” by Sam Mason (2019)

Some great and mysterious work.

This is from Directors notes:

“On the foggy margins of the ancient and the new lies the world of Zuma, where the masked Truskan people, a once rich civilization, rot away, or where the forgotten Wazoh bird-men roam the desert ruins. In the mountains, deep in complex cave networks, dwell the Tholotec ape-men, and by the forests live the silent Mani who dawn themselves in outfits made of hollow reeds that whistle as they wander.”

 

“I like to think of my workflow as collage, I used primarily digital tools on Sinking Ship, though I love working with people costume and sets.”

Sam Mason (IG)

Ballard.Text.Collage.c.1958

Ballard formed the ‘novel’ from scientific and technical material cut from professional literature such as Chemical and Engineering News (Ballard then worked for the journal of the Society of Chemical Industry). Letters, words and sentence fragments are pasted onto backing sheets with glue. Their design visually references everyday media, with headlines, body text and double-page spreads suggesting a magazine layout. Originally Ballard planned to display the work on billboards, as if it was a public advertisement.

From the British Library.

Found via @derekbeaulieu & @johnbrissenden.