Ariel Pink (50 Alternative Album Covers to Thrash and Burn) Book
Ariel Pink (50 Alternative Album Covers to Thrash and Burn) Book
LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BOOK, 150 copies
SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED
$20 from each sale is donated to Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project.
When musician Ariel Pink used an unauthorized image of her face on his album cover “Thrash and Burn,” artist Jill Miller responded by making a series of fifty “alternative” album covers. Working in collaboration with artificial intelligence software, Miller created a series of images that use humor and parody to address the original cover’s violations to personal rights and offenses to good taste. She leaves the text “ARIEL STINKS” but swaps the original cover for 50 different versions that feature Ariel Pink, rather than herself.
The album covers explore comical parallel worlds and fantastical situations. There are four categories: Alternative Careers (Ariel as a TSA agent, a Walmart associate, a spin instructor, and more); Animals and Vegetables (Ariel holding stinky objects); Parallel Realities (Ariel being pied in the face, on a wanted poster, as a garden gnome, etc); and The Backrooms (interior and exterior spaces catastrophically destroyed or abandoned).
Book size: 9.5” x 7.5” / 104 pages
First Edition 150 copies
Signed and hand-numbered
50 images + text by Jill Miller
Essay by Maya Gurantz
Book Design by Brett Yasko
Photo Editing by Lisa Foote and Adam Huth