Lucy Pritchett
University of Brighton
Explanation of work
I was fascinated by Henry’s profound depiction of death as the mother of beauty. This stuck with me throughout the book, and the key to my concept was to interlink death and beauty. I based the imagery for the cover on the event that was terrifying, yet gloriously magical – the significant Dionysian ritual. In my design I wanted to show the madness and beauty of the dark ritual and the surreal dreamlike world of the drug-induced group hallucinations. Julian’s thesis, which rules the thinking of the whole book, was an influence on my thought process – the burden of one’s self and why people want to lose themselves. Civilisation is built on the repression of primal instinctive and sexual urges, but it is a mistake to ‘murder’ the primitive self.
Judges' Comments
‘It’s the elegance of the solution tying together so many concepts in the book which really makes this cover work for me. The supporting roughs were very impressive as well as the final cover’ Jonathan Barnbrook
