Old School

Vinyl Tiger has been haunting me for years.
It came into being via scribbled, handwritten notes on Japanese subways, bumpy bus rides in Rome and while wittingly away downtime in Melbourne art galleries.
To conserve paper (and go blind) I'd write with really tiny print, and I can't tell you how many times people would just sit and stare at me or ask me if I was preparing some artwork for show.
Vinyl Tiger is the story of Alekzandr, an 80s pop act, and so I did copious amounts of research (having already lived through them myself) to be faithful to that decade (and to the 90s and 00s).
Having grown up on a diet of Smash Hits and MTV I already had a really good base to start from, and as a pop lover, using pop culture as a background was very much a labour of love - not just an exercise in research.
-Dave Di Vito

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