For a school project, I’ve deconstructed the lyrics of a song (picked from the Vodafone.FM radio online) and created flat compositions of them digitally.
It centers, mainly, on the use of digital photography with analog influence and overlapped vector calligraphy.
I picked the new single of the band Tame Impala, entitled “Let It Happen”, for personal preference and immediate inspiration. Analysing the lyrics, there’s a strong transmission of a teen angst mind, very confused, depressed and problematic, not succeeding in organising their thoughts or assuming responsibilities. A similar state to “nobody gets me” kind of fase in the teen years, where in the end, they try to “escape” those thoughts. There’s mentions of escaping but not in a solid form, with lyrics like “… If I never come back, tell my mother I’m sorry…” which can take us to a subjective thought of death.

(this is a personal analyzation and may be or may not coincide with the song’s message)
 

The work’s theme revolves around the “affirmation” stage in teenagers, where they do stuff believing of being rebellions, they try to find someone that "understands” them and, sometimes, seek for a place for shelter/peace of mind, isolating themselves from the rest of the world.
Using photography, I was able to portrait those actions and, editing them to have a more analog/burn feel so it would associate with the teens’ mind storm and the music/genre itself. The calligraphy has the objective to mimic a diary, making it belief it was a teenager that wrote all of the lyrics.
 

(I apologize for the not so flatering pictures.)

NOTE: I'm sorry for any lyric mistake, the work was done when the single came out and the music lyrics were still not available.