In 2010, I made 2 ink portraits of 2 friends using real or imagined landscapes as their settings, the portraits showing through as illusions of the landscapes' specifications. "Gettysburg (Andrew Field-Pickering)" was created specifically as lp/cd album art for his music project "Maxmillion Dunbar" and his first album, "Cool Water," on Ramp Recordings. The woods setting for the drawing depicts a house that his dad built, and is a special orchard-neighboring setting in Gettysburg crucially formative to his life, music, and many cool memories that have emerged from there over many summers. I have included as reference/process photographs the original house and portrait study of Andrew that I used. "Untitled (Elizabeth Flyntz)" is a purposefully unfinished landscape in an unsure land of flora and fauna, a cabin, and dead trees. Maxmillion Dunbar also used a close crop of this drawing as art on his 3-song 12" (prequel to Cool Water) record, "Every Girl's Dream." I have also included here images of both that final product, as well as a closer detail of her cabin/face. It is great to be able to use work like this for album and poster work, because the drawings themselves have no specific commercial adjustments, words, or other specifications from whomever in this case considered me a client. They are drawings that just happened to be perfect for the reproducible projects, made out of love and respect for the people and music that have brought those things to me.

Also included in this project series are 3 pictures from my drawing and poster making process for the Skull Defekts w/Daniel Higgs/Zomes/Microkingdom/Shave show for 4/8/11 at Floristree, which is the multi-use performance and art space where I have lived and helped curate hundreds of events in Baltimore for the past 9 years . It depicts a portrait of Asa Osborne, aka Zomes, someone whose music, art, and life, are as inspiring to me as are the landscape portrait subjects.