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Back in 2014, I created this psychedelic photocopy collage for Orchestrated Dystopia Records, a DIY punk label that was deeply rooted in the underground scene at the time. Around 300 copies were produced and slipped into one of their compilation releases as a free poster, a tradition that kept the spirit of punk and mail-order art alive.
The piece itself was a modified version of an earlier T-shirt design I’d produced for the label. I worked on a number of visuals for Orchestrated Dystopia, and they consistently championed the stranger and more experimental corners of the UK’s punk and DIY landscape. Their releases always contained lots of free art like this and were full of character on the sonic front too, the kind of raw creativity that can only exist outside commercial systems.
Part political absurdity, part photocopy experiment, mixing satire, pop culture, and DIY grit. It captures that raw, handmade energy that defined the label and much of my 2010's political work: fast, imperfect, and made to provoke.