Medicate

This is from a half completed series based on AFI's "Crash Love" album. Each was done about a year ago and as most off you can see, I've progressed a lot. I hope to complete and redo the start of the series in the near future.


"Can you tell me how it feels? Can we pretend this is real?"

So here's my interpretation of "Medicate". It's done very different to the others, possibly because I've had more time to dwell on the concept. To me the song is about finding comfort, healing and the high in sex, not because of the person but through the act itself. However, by the end of the song we get the insight that it is no longer working. The person has lost his last connection to emotion and they are empty, trying to pretend they are getting anything out of the intimacy.

I portrayed this with greylead as it seemed fitting. In my opinion grey is a lot worse than black and white; it's "meh". The colour of apathy. The entwined figured in a suggestive position are simply artist's guide dolls, representations and blueprints for unnamed humans lacking facial features and emotion. The spotlights were attempting to show standing alone in the darkness, no one around to watch them.

Yes, I'm odd, this picture's odd and I'm not quite sure what possessed me to do it. Interesting though, wish it looked half as good on the computer as it does on paper.