MOURN VII

The dawn can bring dark. A sense of fear. Tears, rolling. Falling unto your chest. A heave. Weep. A feeling leak. To mourn. A mourning. Number 7.

Through the years of sourcing stock images for subjects, often finding there were almost half the results for “Man crying” than “Woman crying”. ‘MOURN’ is a counter to this experience. Adding fragility and serenity, absent from the source. The societal skew of masculinity and femininity continues…

MOURN VII

[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2024]

‘Existing imagery, rendered in noisy ember effect, with typographic frame.’

IMAGE SOURCE:

Pexels: 8526180 by Ron Lach.

TYPEFACE:

‘BRUTUX — OL’ by Olio Studio.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

An oval shaped artwork depicting a close up shot of a masculine-presenting face at an angle, staring off to the right in the distance with several tears streaming down their face. Rendered in a noisy Red and Black, with text on each side in a blocked typeface that reads ‘MOURN VII’. All on a Black background.