I came up to the recording studio about two years ago for the first time to listen to the work as it was progressing. Certain icons feel like they can be hundreds of years old, others feel like they cannot be invented yet.Īnd when you were creating all these symbols and imagery, did you adapt from your previous work or did you just start entirely from scratch?Īll of the artwork has been in conversation with the Bon Iver project for a number of years now. I love to draw, I love these things that are just natural and human and mark-making. And that’s another thing I felt very accustomed to personally. And so it’s reaching back and it’s reaching forward, simultaneously. I think that is in regards to both this analog and this digital, this kind of human, natural, traditional thing-people make music-but also they’re using tools and there are aesthetics that are very now or on the precipice of the process and the tools and the capabilities of music. I practice both very analog and digital output and I know that in their press release they’re talking about the song being a polyphonic sound. I personally feel aesthetically connected to the new material and I find it exciting. How do you feel your art fits into this new version of Bon Iver? Judging by the two singles and the track names, this seems to be a major departure from the days of For Emma, Forever Ago. It’s been exciting to see people pick the videos apart and pull pieces and to start connecting the murals to it. There’s a lot of material in the artwork to dig into.
There’s the ten murals that went up in cities around the world. And the two lyrics videos have come out and I guess I would feel comfortable saying that we're working on the videos for each song in line with what was established with the first two. And then the full album is coming out in every format as well. Well, the first two singles are out and they came out on vinyl and on cassette tape. So far, Bon Iver have shared the album artwork and two music videos for album tracks “22 (OVER S∞∞N) ” and “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠ (Extended Version).” How much more material is there to this project? You mentioned there's a lot of artwork for this album. I wanted to be able to do the work and fulfill the vision before putting it out there and let that conversation grow and be able to show the extent of the work as a whole body, a vast system. I think the Bon Iver thing is known for being a private kind of entity, it’s guarded.
People that know me knew a thing or two, but everybody’s pretty good about respecting the privacy of the project.
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