The book was designed in collaboration with Branca Studio and Münster Studio. 220 pages and the size of a vinyl to fit your record collection. The boxset edition comes with the soundtrack on an etched vinyl. The idea for the soundtrack, using the most primal form of music, percussion was inspired by the ritualistic use of drums, in particular attending a Macumba ritual in Brazil. Uno Bruniusson (ex-In Solitude, Procession, Maggot Heart) composed it with the idea to create a rhythm and a mindset that alters the experience of the book.
I brought music and photography together in a way that connects to the album format by reversing the process. Pictures reverse role with music. The pictures in Ars Umbra are inspired by music, and those pictures inspired the music in the book, a primal form of music supporting contemporary pictures, it is a snake that eats its own tail. Releasing it through a label like Season Of Mist follows on the idea. Wonderfully, it has been printed in Barcelona, the city I was born has given physical birth to the book.
If you would like a copy of the book you can order from Season of Mist, if you would like a signed copy you can order from Cult Never Dies.
The end is the beginning
An Ouroboros
Mouth/tail, beginning/end, life/death, light/shadow… ad infinitum.
As above so below.
