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A couple more examples of my personal output that owe a great deal to the Pathological Puppy's post-modern digital tapestry.

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Under the influence of the Pathological Puppy? Well, this looks more than likely to me now, over 10 years after making these pieces at a time when almost every other record I got my hands on featured artwork designed by this very Pathological Puppy a.k.a. Kevin Martin a.k.a. The Bug. Think the 'Routes from the Jungle', 'Macro Dub Infection' and 'Ambient 4 - Isolationism' compilations, think most releases by God and Techno Animal from the mid-90's, and so many others, all of them worth checking out for both the visual and sonic contents.

artwork by Olivier Jallet

In 2000, Shambala Records out of Paris issued Liquid Sphere's first proper release, 'skull & bones'. For Boris Cabeza and Gregory - respectively one of the two label managers and the company's graphic designer - to work on the artwork, I sent them some photographs of a dozen or so paintings by my friend Olivier Jallet (OLV).

They used a few of them, but either printed in black and white, or so blurred - on purpose - that you couldn't make them out for what they were in the first place. Which doesn't mean that I don't like the artwork for 'skull & bones', but Olivier's fantastic paintings really deserve more than this poor representation.

Here is a sample of his colourful, lush and tempestuous output. These five pieces date back from the late 1990's.

Hypocracy series

These photographs are part of the 'hypocracy' series of Liquid Sphere releases.

It all started with a photograph I took in New Orleans in December 2001. I noticed a graffiti scribbled on a wall and decided it would be appropriate for the artwork of the upcoming Liquid Sphere 3" CDR 'hypocracy' put out by Taalem in 2002. Some variations were found on the 'hypocracy 2 & 3' CDR. More may one day be included in the artwork for the unreleased 'hypocracy 4' EP.

Blissful World series

The title for this series may come as a surprise for those familiar with my musical work, since some of these pictures were actually used for the 'Hammer of Wisdom' disc by Liquid Sphere.

This series was actually originally intended for the 'Blissful World' album which was released in 2003 by the label Docsect Media out of Minneapolis. Cordell Klier - the man behind Doctsect Media - wanted something more streamlined for 'Blissful World', so I let him use some design of his own for the release. I don't blame him for that at all. What he created suits more the overall visual image of his label, and image has always been an important aspect of Cordell's output:   http://doctsect.com/

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digital artwork 12Aug2001