“Filled With Wonder Once Again” by Bill Fay from his upcoming record, ‘Countless Branches’ out January 17, 2020 on Dead Oceans. deadoceans.com
I wanted to create a dreamy world that melted reality into abstraction, with a sense of wonder – of nature large and small; and that explored themes of cycles and phases – of the tree & planet more broadly.
Visually I was inspired by early botanical illustration, Japanese woodblock prints, macro photography and nature itself.
Process-wise, I combined analogue and digital – hand-drawing animal-skins, patterns and organic textures, and used coloured gels & photographic slides on overhead projectors to produce soft dappled washes of light.
