Father :: Encounter on Dagobah Screen Print

tomer :: the central idea going into this image was depicting planet Dagobah itself as a portrait of Luke’s subconscious in it’s most interesting and unformed phase.



in a nightmarish sequence Luke runs into the mist where he finds Vader and a lightsaber duel ends when Luke decapitates his nemesis. The mask cracks off the severed head to reveal the frozen face of a dead Luke Skywalker.



the suggestion here is that somewhere within Luke’s psyche there is a potential for ultimate evil. Luke’s greatest challenge isn’t the Galactic Empire and it’s endless rows of faceless troops, but the magnetism of the dark side, the seductive idea of choosing his own potential for power over everything else



for LucasFilm Ltd / The Alamo Drafthouse poster series revisiting Star Wars. this screen print is 19″ x 25″ has an Edition of 350 and goes on sale today on Mondo Tees here. and thanks Mitch Putnam.

BP oil spill

asaf :: man destroys nature then tries to fix it.

process

and final

why Hitchcock can make you a better illustrator :: or some other outrageous title

tomer :: the real birds in Hitchcock's The Birds are modern city girls, armed with irony and good legs, about to take the men away from their families and by doing so unleash chaos upon the universe.

when Tippi Hedren brings a pair of love birds to a gentleman who resides with his mother and sister in an idyllic small town, it's an obvious gesture to which his mother reacts by covering the bird cage with a blanket. she can't stand the idea of her son leaving. but there is no escape, and by the end of the film the birds have shredded the town to pieces.

the metaphor flies far from the tree and circles back around as Hitchcock folds complex ideas into arresting visuals. the relationship between symbol and meaning is mutually beneficial. like two reflective surfaces facing each other, their depth multiplies times eternity.

above, Hedren's sexy french twist is the eye of the storm.