‘Forgive me, Brother’ is a moody, large scale atmospheric oil painting created in response to the song “Brother” by Orphaned Land. A depiction on one of history’s oldest fractures.
A tiny figure against an enormous turbulent sky says everything the song is about without a single word - There is guilt, and grief there, and the longing for reconciliation that can never be found.
‘Let the truce be known’ is another large scale painting created for the song of the same name, which was used as the stripped reissue album.
This song carries a quietly devastating theme shown in music. Two people raised on opposite sides of an old painful divide.
What I tried to capture is that the moment their truce ends and how that walk itself is depicted.
From a distance this painting reads like a landscape painting, two mountains on both sides with a moonlit sky and what looks like a lake catching the reflection of the sky. But when you stand closer you can see that the lake is just the reflection of blood and soil.
The mountains are actually very dark and engulfing, with the figures looking small and alone, to show how minuscule their fight is to the chaos around them that is darkening their souls.
A link to the official release: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2Oc6AtlUO/?igsh=MXEwNTZuOXpyNjRoaQ==