311 I've always loved the epic

I've always loved the epic squid and whale battle diorama at the Museum of Natural History and wanted to create something of that size and scale here

I also thought it striking to blend my older mosaic approach with my more recent style

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It also allows me to increase the size of the graphic without feeling at all heavy while you're wearing it

311 I've always loved the epicInitially, I wanted to make a boombox encased in amber as reference to 80s 90s music devices and their relative extinction. When I started piecing the image together I felt I wasn't getting enough contrast and abandoned the idea in favor of a more graphic solution. I struggled with how to handle areas where text was written on the boombox and ultimately decided to put all of it in braille. Clearly, this was the same person who made the Close