Un-Official Album Artwork for Song:Ohia

As a way to build up my portfolio, I took one of my favourite artists, Jason Molina, and his initial moniker of Songs:Ohia, as a basis for a design charette.

I chose his work, not only due to my love of his music; but the deep spiritual and emotive quality it holds, and that he personally portrayed within his lyrical persona. The original artwork he had at the time provided simple, stark and monochrome backdrop to his music, that developed to more graphical entries; in time with his musics production, from solo basement tapes, to full band studio works. However I felt that some of the imagery lack a certain symbolic quality, that radiates through the fictitious world he created in his work.

These pieces try to bring that tone out through the use (and abuse) of geometries, symbols, and symmetry. The gothic lettering, the contrasting colours, and the filigree items all blend into what maybe more chaotic, leading to the more rougher and heavier sections of his music, which many lead to. Particularly on the Lioness, where the music swells as he repeats 'If you can't get here fast enough...'