This piece is produced to celebrate the song Jungle Music by the artist Jeru the Damaja. I wanted to create a triptych with one part each holding a verse of these powerful rap lyrics. Lyrics which detail the abuse, suppression and appropriation black music has suffered in America. I wanted the lyrics to feel locked in place and built backgrounds to contain them using wooden and metal furniture and the back of wooden type, which I raised to type high through flipping locked up forms in chases. Multi layered typography, printing letters over each other, gave a feeling of re-written or subverted messages. The materials I used took on a symbolism when combined - the metal of chains, the textured wood used in ship building, and the paper made of cotton, all seemed to connect deeply to the messages in the lyrics

Litho ink printed onto cotton rag paper

Heavy Rotations