artwork by The Pathological Puppy

When introducing a few of my own pieces some time ago, I mentioned The Pathological Puppy, also known as K-Mart, The Bug, or more officially Kevin Martin. If you don't know who this prolific, multi-talented artist is, look him up with any of his aliases at discogs.com and you should be impressed by the amount of musical productions he has been involved with since the late 1980's.
What follows is a selection of artwork he produced as The Pathological Puppy in the 1990's.

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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.

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