Promotional illustration for Brazilian musician Adriano Adewale's large scale vocal work,
Within The Waves which premiered as part of the 2015
EFG
London
Jazz
Festival.
The show draws from both English and Brazilian seafaring traditions as well as modern topics affecting the seas – migration, globalization, pollution etc. To illustrate these concepts I used a graphic, semi-woodcut style taking abstracted waves (both water and sound) as a basis, then incorporated a Windrush style clipper, a container ship, some fish and Yemanjá, the goddess of the sea, a large figure in Brazilian seafaring tradition. I chose a dark blue colour scheme for these central elements, entwining them together as if they were part of the murky depths, whilst using the two countries' flags as a brighter border. All of it was created with vectors to allow for future adaption
and
scaling.