Works
Colours Of Time
Credits:
Models - Joshua Cudjoe / Temesgen Emanuelle
Photography - Christian Cassiel
The world is a weird place right now and I wasn't sure how to address it & creatively this is what I have come up with. A window (shown on the front) into the process and the other sides to my creativity via poetry/photography and videography.
People’s attention on social media is so short that I wanted to capture their attention by tapping into their curiosity and use it to pivot them towards what I had documented. The entire process of creating the Colour Of Time project and I wanted to take the 400+ images and 30+ videos and deliver the journey of the project in a concise manner.
Why?
Because the response was unanimously positive and engaging.
How?
By using the same time-lapse method used at the “Benaiah Matheson Presents Black Hudu” parties at Small Seeds whereby a 13 minute time lapse video of 7,000 images of the brand played on a loop.
The engaging factor has led me to believe that a series of shorter more condensed versions each with different collections of content and objectives could garner a similar response via various social media channels.
With this concept I can learn what's working and not through sales and engagement.
The videos sent are the 1st draft ideas for the 1st in a series of 4. Each video has a objective;
1 Process - Through close shots of the textures details, storyboard and dying process along with lifestyle (food). My intention with this is to capture engagement by showing the process up close without showing them the finished product.
2 Dystopia Through Designed Anarchy - As soon as the world went on lockdown I had a sudden urge to rebel so I went into town late at night with a roll of paper and put up a large piece on a shop window and drew all over it and left it up for all to see. I documented this. At the same time I was working on the artwork for the Colours Of Time poem via illustrator and recorded the design sessions. Throughout this time life was weird and no one knew what was going on and this was expressed through a mass paint/dying session in the studio on all the base garments for this project, this too was documented.
3 Falling Sediment - A few weeks in and there was a sort of rhythm starting to take place, people were exercising, mum n david were in the garden and I was decorating. The project was coming together. The garments had been washed, pressed and printed but the the final artwork was still not finalised, it didn't feel right to be completely abstract and write the whole poem in a language only I can understand but then why would people want to read a poem I wrote and if so how do I lay it out in a way that it then becomes visually pleasing? This is what will be shown in Falling Sediment, the documentation that alludes to this.
Question to self;
Why 4 sections?
Because 3 seemed too little though as I am writing I am remembering that instagram posts are composed in lines of 3 so that would aesthetically look better in the feed. 4 is neither here nor there in terms of importance because it's mainly the documentation of me taking the product shots which could be used in stories and posts on various social media channels.
Additional Musings
There was nothing more to this than all it had to be, it’s a simply complex is that really. A perfect example of what this iteration of the previously & continually titled There was nothing more to this than all it had to be, it’s a simply complex is that really. A perfect example of what this iteration of the previously I’m continually titled ‘Worlds Greatest Hoodie’. I get that you might want something else But this is all it had to be, all that it could be but this is all it had to be all that it could be and a totem of pure honourable expression. Open in that The Colours Of Time what is an open admission to being lost in a stream of thought From a pure time in yesteryear that have no Bass to be anything other than a window into all time, consolidation unconsolidated from a pure time in yesteryear that have no Bass to be anything other than a window into all time, consolidation and un-consolidated if that is a word.
What are you saying Benaiah?
Ask the Armorist circa 2014 and tell him 2020 became 2022 with tapestries made of fine wool and visions of the vision in Carriacou.
Like it was said before “a thought of actual meaning zoomed by at atomic speed…”
Black Obsidian
Credits:
Model - Bruna
Photography - Christian Cassiel
Styling - Connor Clarke
Born of three elements, three beings coming together to be who are to ourselves with one another. Tangerines and 90’s VHS camcorders recording an iPad 2 as if it were an LCD monitor. The vibe at the time was tainted with that London air of Notting Hill carnival and summer was plentiful and giddy.
Our framework and aim was to bring Black Obsidian to light with an all as one approach to style photography and art. The setting was a curated bedroom permanently in an evolving process that always felt as it should. Based on what I connect to as a “Spider Webs Light Hotel”; a parallel lined asymmetrical example of the 1950’s. The social housing blocks did what they could often do by transforming whatever it had into whatever it needed to be. A place with less passports than its occupants. A metaphysical landscape of materials, texture and choreographed light worked through our layers into the lens of Christians classically unique sounding P7. Supermalt, laughter and a moment in a timeless summer.
Benaiah Matheson X Darkstar
Credits:
Artist - Benaiah Matheson & Darkstar
Photography/Models - @darkstar_band
One day they just walked into the shop and three years laters I’d just finished making their tour merch which also consisted of two custom para smocks embellished with dope custom details depicting elements of their newly finished Foam Island LP; a project I was able to have a hand in, mainly in connecting James and Aiden with members of the creative community in Huddersfield. As a thank you, the last words of the LP are yours truly. Thank you Darkstar.
Elements. Eating beautiful food with the band and their photographer James Medcraft at my parents house. Riding round Huddersfield which they learned very quickly, whilst listening to unreleased tracks.
Hampstead
Credits:
Models - Joshua Cudjoe / Temesgen Emanuelle
Photography: Christian Cassiel
Garmnets/Styling: Benaiah Matheson
One day they just walked into the shop and three years laters I’d just finished making their tour merch which also consisted of two custom para smocks embellished with dope custom details depicting elements of their newly finished Foam Island LP; a project I was able to have a hand in, mainly in connecting James and Aiden with members of the creative community in Huddersfield. As a thank you, the last words of the LP are yours truly. Thank you Darkstar.
Elements. Eating beautiful food with the band and their photographer James Medcraft at my parents house. Riding round Huddersfield which they learned very quickly, whilst listening to unreleased tracks.
Benaiah X Kano
Credits:
Artist - Benaiah Matheson & Darkstar
Photography/Models - @darkstar_band
When It’s time to create, time morphs into sound, light, words, emotions of the purest output comes out in the form of life, which if we ignored would be the end of this most abstract race.
Lets face it, we do some random stuff & call these actions beauty, just & do so with purpose.
The balance of time, air motion, gravity & movement all come into play & must be at the very epicentre & core. This to me is play and I'm honoured to feel such free-dom within this practised natural investment of me for you. Today is a frikkin beautiful day, the sun is shining, yo! It’s dope! Big dawgs of land to sky are going to flow on me as i have transformed from to you 4eva Idst 2015. There was this one story about time where the most natural realm for hundreds & hundreds of years. One day, light told me a secret about time. It was the story I'm telling you now. Time has forgotten that it is the sum of all things, colour, life, greens & blues, you, the birds in the sky and everything you’ve ever dreamed of. We must come together and create together. They, the powers to we feel control us want us to be singular in our actions but WE we are plural, we are many billions, 6.5 billion actually. I always say that ‘I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ME and I don. The key is to know you so we can be us.
Kind regards always, ME ‘MIND ELEVATION’ 2015 MCMLXXXV Greenhead 4life BOOM!
Colours Of Time
Credits:
Models - Joshua Cudjoe / Temesgen Emanuelle
Photography - Christian Cassiel
The world is a weird place right now and I wasn't sure how to address it & creatively this is what I have come up with. A window (shown on the front) into the process and the other sides to my creativity via poetry/photography and videography.
People’s attention on social media is so short that I wanted to capture their attention by tapping into their curiosity and use it to pivot them towards what I had documented. The entire process of creating the Colour Of Time project and I wanted to take the 400+ images and 30+ videos and deliver the journey of the project in a concise manner.
Why?
Because the response was unanimously positive and engaging.
How?
By using the same time-lapse method used at the “Benaiah Matheson Presents Black Hudu” parties at Small Seeds whereby a 13 minute time lapse video of 7,000 images of the brand played on a loop.
The engaging factor has led me to believe that a series of shorter more condensed versions each with different collections of content and objectives could garner a similar response via various social media channels.
With this concept I can learn what's working and not through sales and engagement.
The videos sent are the 1st draft ideas for the 1st in a series of 4. Each video has a objective;
1 Process - Through close shots of the textures details, storyboard and dying process along with lifestyle (food). My intention with this is to capture engagement by showing the process up close without showing them the finished product.
2 Dystopia Through Designed Anarchy - As soon as the world went on lockdown I had a sudden urge to rebel so I went into town late at night with a roll of paper and put up a large piece on a shop window and drew all over it and left it up for all to see. I documented this. At the same time I was working on the artwork for the Colours Of Time poem via illustrator and recorded the design sessions. Throughout this time life was weird and no one knew what was going on and this was expressed through a mass paint/dying session in the studio on all the base garments for this project, this too was documented.
3 Falling Sediment - A few weeks in and there was a sort of rhythm starting to take place, people were exercising, mum n david were in the garden and I was decorating. The project was coming together. The garments had been washed, pressed and printed but the the final artwork was still not finalised, it didn't feel right to be completely abstract and write the whole poem in a language only I can understand but then why would people want to read a poem I wrote and if so how do I lay it out in a way that it then becomes visually pleasing? This is what will be shown in Falling Sediment, the documentation that alludes to this.
Question to self;
Why 4 sections?
Because 3 seemed too little though as I am writing I am remembering that instagram posts are composed in lines of 3 so that would aesthetically look better in the feed. 4 is neither here nor there in terms of importance because it's mainly the documentation of me taking the product shots which could be used in stories and posts on various social media channels.
Additional Musings
There was nothing more to this than all it had to be, it’s a simply complex is that really. A perfect example of what this iteration of the previously & continually titled There was nothing more to this than all it had to be, it’s a simply complex is that really. A perfect example of what this iteration of the previously I’m continually titled ‘Worlds Greatest Hoodie’. I get that you might want something else But this is all it had to be, all that it could be but this is all it had to be all that it could be and a totem of pure honourable expression. Open in that The Colours Of Time what is an open admission to being lost in a stream of thought From a pure time in yesteryear that have no Bass to be anything other than a window into all time, consolidation unconsolidated from a pure time in yesteryear that have no Bass to be anything other than a window into all time, consolidation and un-consolidated if that is a word.
What are you saying Benaiah?
Ask the Armorist circa 2014 and tell him 2020 became 2022 with tapestries made of fine wool and visions of the vision in Carriacou.
Like it was said before “a thought of actual meaning zoomed by at atomic speed…”
Black Obsidian
Credits:
Model - Bruna
Photography - Christian Cassiel
Styling - Connor Clarke
Born of three elements, three beings coming together to be who are to ourselves with one another. Tangerines and 90’s VHS camcorders recording an iPad 2 as if it were an LCD monitor. The vibe at the time was tainted with that London air of Notting Hill carnival and summer was plentiful and giddy.
Our framework and aim was to bring Black Obsidian to light with an all as one approach to style photography and art. The setting was a curated bedroom permanently in an evolving process that always felt as it should. Based on what I connect to as a “Spider Webs Light Hotel”; a parallel lined asymmetrical example of the 1950’s. The social housing blocks did what they could often do by transforming whatever it had into whatever it needed to be. A place with less passports than its occupants. A metaphysical landscape of materials, texture and choreographed light worked through our layers into the lens of Christians classically unique sounding P7. Supermalt, laughter and a moment in a timeless summer.
Benaiah Matheson X Darkstar
Credits:
Artist - Benaiah Matheson & Darkstar
Photography/Models - @darkstar_band
One day they just walked into the shop and three years laters I’d just finished making their tour merch which also consisted of two custom para smocks embellished with dope custom details depicting elements of their newly finished Foam Island LP; a project I was able to have a hand in, mainly in connecting James and Aiden with members of the creative community in Huddersfield. As a thank you, the last words of the LP are yours truly. Thank you Darkstar.
Elements. Eating beautiful food with the band and their photographer James Medcraft at my parents house. Riding round Huddersfield which they learned very quickly, whilst listening to unreleased tracks.
