THE FRIST CENTER - Choose You Own Adventure...

At the beginning of the year, I had the great pleasure to team up with the Frist Center in Nashville to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-styled book to accompany their exhibit ROME: City & Empire.

The brainchild of curator Ginny Soenksen and with design by Phil El Rassi, "Fortune & Glory" offers a branching narrative and context to lead the viewer across time and dozens of artifacts in the gallery space. As the protagonist, our museum-goer steps into Rome in the role of merchant, soldier, or revolutionary, charting a fate that ends in acclaim or death.

For my part, I illustrated 20 images, including the cover, in a limited palette that evoked both art of the era and mid-century American prints on the subject.

The exhibit is up now and here are some examples:

THE SHOWING _ Poster Illustration

I got to illustrate this poster for S/Lang Entertainment's stellar short film,
THE SHOWING.

It's dreamy material and I had a beautifully shot still and "Hitchcock blonde" lead actress Katie Morrison to work from.

It was also my first time doing digital watercolor, abetted by Kyle T. Webster's extremely natural and responsive brushes.

The film will drop this fall, trailer below and an IMDb profile has been added HERE:


The Showing Trailer from S/Lang Entertainment on Vimeo.