Course: Collaboration
Project: Creative Collective
Date: 2022-23, HS SM and JR
Timeline: Nine Months
Background: Throughout my artistic career, my main interest has been in collaboration. The process of working alongside an artist, and finding a way to translate their vision from one medium to another. Growing up I have never been musically talented, yet this has never stopped me from dreaming of a career spent working within the musical world. As these interests collided with a group of artistically talented friends in high school, I created this project.
Objective: Find a way to work alongside talented artists and use my own skills to create a new way in which we can all produce at our highest levels.
Product: This project was ultimately dubbed ELMS as an homage to the trees that fill the forests around my home. Over the course of a little under a year, the ELMS collective would produce multiple albums, singles, music videos, as well as a line of clothing bearing the group's branding. As the lead designer and organizer for the collective, I designed the clothing, album covers, and promotional releases.
