Concept Art
Musician and Artist
Logo Viral Images
Client: Hitashya or #HXYA
Project: Hitashya Logo
Service: Iterative Images
Year: 2024
Using the Hitashya logo and overall lexicon as the compositional inspiration for various AI-created images, these are being created and leaked over time online and used for various social channels.
Musician and Artist
Installation Images and Viral Images
Project: Installation Proposal and Iterative Viral Images
Year: 2024
Musician and Artist Logo/Title
Client: Hitashya or #HXYA
Project: HXYA Logo/Title
Service: Brainstorming, Direction, Iterative Images
Year: 2024
Conceptual Icon and Animation for Institutional Art Project
Client: Central Saint Martins MA Intercultural Practices
Project: New World MayDay Event
Location: London and Online
Year: 2024
Service: Art Direction, Concept Art Creation, AI Editing
Notes: At the time we were putting together New World May Day, I was working on a personal project of mine called “Let 1000 Flowers Bloom”, playing with various AI filters and iconic flower imagery. Through deep group interaction and discussions, I assigned the sunflower as the icon of our project, and created this animation to be displayed along with our work. It worked, and we incorporated the sunflower into many of our projects.
Conceptual Art Animations
Project: Let 1000 Flowers Bloom
Year: 2024
Conceptual Art Animation
Year: 2024
This was created as a proposal for a Jaipur festival, as a city-wide video screen installation. It uses different Jaipur iconography and aesthetics.
Concept Art, Future World
Year: 2024
This is a personal project where I imagine “Mumbai Skyworld”, the city of Mumbai in a future aerocene, say in 2050 or 2080.
After conceptualizing and writing out the text for each area of the city, I used AI to illustrate the scenes.
The initial spark for this came from living in Mumbai, which naturally leads to Indofuturist fantasies, and recent global travels where I discovered the green parakeets of Mumbai’s skies had now dominated the entire Indo European stretch of cities.
Art Proposal Imagery (Architecture, Sculpture)
Year: 2024
Service: Art Direction, Production (AI)
DIY, Mobile Music Videos
Client: Hitashya
Location: Goa
Services: Shooting, Performing, AI and Editing (in phone only)
Notes: These are personal projects, smallscale DIY music videos shot and edited entirely on a phone during CoVid with no budget. For “Tear Up La Tierra”, I experimented with the current AI apps available on the phone, this is before Runway video and Sora.
I did have a few friends help me with some of the shots, but really it was all my phone, selfie sticks and one monopod!
Installation Proposal for World Expo
Client: World Expo 2020 Dubai
Location: Dubai
Year: 2019
Project: Special Initiatives
Service: Pavilion and Design for New Countries
World Expo 2020 in Dubai included a special project that gave pavilion funding to many African countries which had never been represented at the fair before. I was in talks to join the team as a pavilion and content designer for this initiative. As a test project, I was invited to propose a pavilion experience design and the video content for Uganda. Known as the pearl of Africa and the source of several rivers, along with being abundant in wildlife, I created a pearl-shaped pavilion with water features and animal cutouts holding screens among other aspects. The content focused on de-colonial and grassroots initiatives, mostly in the food and ecological markets. This was a quick turnaround proposal and only an initial draft which didn’t get chosen in the end due to logistics, but I still want to make this!
Single Release Cover Art
Client: Maluca
Project; “Trigger” (Single)
Service: Art Direction, Design
Location: New York
Year: 2014
Photographer: Kevin Amato
Repurposing the font from Maleficent, I gave Maluca a new title treatment and some slightly sci-fi graphic overlays. These images would mostly be seen on the phone, so the scale had to be large and social-friendly.
Musician Album Art
Client: Teengirl Fantasy and Subpop Records
Project: “Tracer” Album
Location: New York
Year: 2012
Service: Concept Art, 3D
This was a personal artwork of mine which I used for Teengirl Fantasy’s album commission. With this I really felt I was figuring out ways to make 3D imaging look liquid, surreal and painterly. It was created as an animation, so for the album print, the group and I made a lenticular image that animated between two fames, as well as some t shirts. We also made one “remix” of the work for a New York boat party they were having and some graphics for their song with Kelela, which was featured as a single.
Remix Album Cover Art
Client: Fatima Al Qadiri
Project: GSX Remixes
Service: Concept Art
The original album cover for GSX featured a fantasy luxury 3D scene in sunset and night lighting, created by Timur Si-Qin. Using these two images as “wraps” on a new scene, I created the same “luxury oasis” through a computer setup, pointing to the fact that these songs are now files being given to other artists to remix via their own computer portals. The image is a “remix” of the original cover art.
Musician/Producer EP Cover Art
Client: Dubbel Dutch and Mixpak Records
Project: “Self Help Riddims” EP
Year: 2013
Location: New York & Jamaica
Service: 3D Concept Art
Dubbel Dutch is the producer behind some of dancehall and trancehall’s biggest hits, including collabs with Popcaan and Dre Skull. Having collaborated on some of those visuals with him before, we often played with the codes of island and urban aesthetics, using 3D software to make “island fantasy” scenes, including one in particular of a luxury car emerging in water for a prior single release. For his larger album cover, I took the materials from this car and distilled them down to smooth beach pebbles or “worry stones”. This was also similar to Dubbel Dutch’s practice of distilling the sounds of dancehall down into essential tones. I wanted the 3D to look more digital and painterly than realistic, like a video game.
This was part of a moment of cutting-edge dancehall hitting huge global mainstream waves, from 2010 to the present. I like to imagine it like a cultural engine washing up on new shores.
Conceptual Video Installation Art
Year: 2011-2013
Wherever I installed this animation would create the illusion of a shredded screen in a zebra stripe pattern. As an art piece it was displayed on various screens and as a largescale projection in venues throughout the world. Created in Cinema4D.
Art Editorial
Client: Casio G Shock and Super Super Magazine
Location: London
Service: Art Direction, Concept Art, Production (3D, ZBrush)
Year: 2011
Casio G Shock contacted Super Super Magazine to invite artists to create commissioned ad spreads that were open to any artistic interpretation.
Art Editorial, Digital Illustration
Photoshop and Wacom Tablet
Year: 2006