Surrealism

Kenneth Johnston

Lovecraft Series -
Antarctic Wildlife 3a

Zenobia Marsh and a Temple Guardian on the
Alkali Flats

I am Kenneth Johnston and currently reside in rural East Baton Rouge Parish in southeastern Louisiana, USA. In the 1980s I developed a solo guitar act that centered around the use of "prepared" guitars. These were instruments - some homemade - that were mechanically modified in some way to NOT sound like a guitar. This type of music was somewhat in demand at art galleries for "ambient music" and even private parties. I later found it practical to promote my music over the www.

For packaging, promotion, and website design I needed graphics that would support both the feel of the music and the mythology that it sonically depicted. I drew upon specific influences - the surrealist work of Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and Max Ernst; the designs (often associated with fantasy movies) of Paul Blaisdell and HR Giger, and the fantasy literature of HP Lovecraft.

I found that by using a combination of model building, costume fabrication, photography, and digital manipulation of scanned-in images I was able to illustrate my concept of the "Invisible World of the American South" and its array of inhabitants. The illustrations in this gallery are from a series of photographs inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

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