Sunday, April 4, 2010

Visual Interpretation - Montage

A montage drawing based on the lyrics to the Crystal Castles song "Mother Knows Best".

For my montage I chose to do it based off of lyrics to a song called Mother Knows Best by Crystal Castles. The song brought violent, abusive, offensive images to mind. I find that kind of stuff interesting to draw. When I hear, or read the lyrics to the song I see that it mentions sex, herpes, abuse and murder a lot.

The blood and bruises are the most vibrant because they the most prominent to me in the song. There is a bruised and bleeding vagina at the top because the song mentions beating, herpes, cunt and sickness inside, so I thought this would help represent those portions. I made knives stabbing and cutting the spread legs, as the song mentions “I stab her with my hunting knife”. Finally, there is a female with a bruised and bleeding face, once again referring to the abuse. The blood is meant to tie all the images together.

Hit the read more link to hear the song and read the lyrics.




Feel her tight between my thighs from across the football field
It's victory that I smell inside and the smell contains no guilt

H, E, R, P, E, S, I can smell them through her dress
H, E, R, P, E, S, my daddy's wrong, mother knows best

C, C, C is for cunt there's a sickness inside that I need to harvest
Broken tramp have you seen her, I tried to love but now I'll beat her

H, E, R, P, E, S, I can smell them through her dress
H, E, R, P, E, S, your daddy's wrong mother knows best

She's the one who brings me to life, when I stab her with my hunting knife
Broken tramp have you seen her, I tried to love but now I've beat her
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