Magnanimous Cosmos Veneration!

digital design, photo collage, and printout, hand aged and fatigued.

19.25 in. x 29.25 in.

This is one of four propaganda posters I did for an art show called "Pointless Propaganda". I wanted to create a sense of them being from a confusing foreign culture by combining odd, undecipherable, yet apparently symbolic imagery with a made up language of my own design. I imagine the posters being government propaganda, probably from a totalitarian state of some kind. The designs were created digitally and intended to look cheaply and quickly mass produced with registration errors and other flaws built in. For the actual pieces that were hung in the show I printed the designs on low quality paper, and hand aged and weathered each one so that they looked like very old, faded posters that had been displayed for some time, and most likely taken down and folded up by someone who wanted to save them for some reason.