Amanda Palmer commissioned over 30 artists to make pieces for her new album either inspired by specific songs or featuring a portrait of her. These works made a six city international gallery tour this past spring and have been compiled into a big art book available for purchase.
The song I chose to do a piece for was
'Want It Back' and in the book I included some thoughts about the piece itself, ruminations about time I've spent with Amanda and a guessing game of associative inspirations for the different tableaus in the piece.
The piece for Want It Back:
and the game of pop culture references in the piece:
This the portrait:
Some of the other artists include: David Mack, Kristin Hersh, Neil Gaiman, Frances Bean Cobain, Hans Rickheit, Molly Crabapple, Michael Pope and Shepard Fairey.
Here's where you can get your copy.