Who Will Survive, and What Will be Left of Them?
This project consists of two stories as well as my own narrative. By combining the folklore of the Jersey Devil, a concept-album from the band Murder by Death, and a rough structure of a graphic novel I have created this story. It is meant to be viewed in order to create a timeline and understand the premonitions that occur. The very idea of folklore interest me; it expresses beliefs and sometimes morals about life that are passed down from generation to generation, often getting misconstrued along the way. These distorted 'facts' and stories is usually where an interesting turn comes into the myth and often creates an entirely new version of said story.
While basing the original story off of the album "Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them?" by Murder by Death I have changed some of the original imagery to fit with the Jersey Devil opposed to the Devil. In the MBD version a man meets the Devil in a bar and realizing how obnoxious he is in real life decides to take his life. In doing so, he dooms the town that this happens in, and in fear of being an outcast he travels out of town only to eventually return to the town waging war against the returned, and outraged, Devil.
My version of the story is a bit different. I have taken the story of a man killing the Jersey Devil and battling him until one of them dies. My small contribution to the folklore of the Jersey Devil is this story right here.
The process of these images consisted of shooting each image with a medium format film camera for greater clarity and color processing in post. I kept the film borders as well as used various layers in post processing to create images that have a somewhat 'found' feeling to it. The idea was to make this seem like someone had been documenting this event and the images had been recently found, mangled, but still intact.
While basing the original story off of the album "Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them?" by Murder by Death I have changed some of the original imagery to fit with the Jersey Devil opposed to the Devil. In the MBD version a man meets the Devil in a bar and realizing how obnoxious he is in real life decides to take his life. In doing so, he dooms the town that this happens in, and in fear of being an outcast he travels out of town only to eventually return to the town waging war against the returned, and outraged, Devil.
My version of the story is a bit different. I have taken the story of a man killing the Jersey Devil and battling him until one of them dies. My small contribution to the folklore of the Jersey Devil is this story right here.
The process of these images consisted of shooting each image with a medium format film camera for greater clarity and color processing in post. I kept the film borders as well as used various layers in post processing to create images that have a somewhat 'found' feeling to it. The idea was to make this seem like someone had been documenting this event and the images had been recently found, mangled, but still intact.