Music helps us relive the experience of others, their mistakes, their triumphs and everything in between. In this phase it helped me feel connected. But I also began to notice that some music is less experience and more find out what people like and do that! I also noted that music and music genres were being used to market ideas, build walls, convey messages to tighter and tighter demographics. How much do the people that own the media channels use them to push their own views?

Being a child of the seventies, there was something about album covers that just captivated us. This was art, but not the art in galleries, something more radical, it had a greater freedom. The best thing was that every town had a store full of this art. It wasn’t till many years later that I realised that one group, a design collective was responsible for so many of them. Storm Thorgerson and the team at Hipgnosis were going from strength to strength, playing with ideas and surrealism to make new worlds. Worlds that as kids we loved.

I began to play with this concept. I invented a project I called the “Surreal world of guitars” where the designers of this world were so enamored with guitars that they used the design elements in other projects. The first in this series was this image. But this world is not as happy as the warm sunlight would suggest. The TV’s full of static, flew through the landscape, and tourists watched on from above. What was this world like?