MUKESH AMARAN
ALBUM
ARTicle:
HANISHA
TIRUMALASETTY
Hello, a little bit about yourself and your background in
arts and music?
My name is Hanisha Tirumalasetty and I’m a visual artist
based out of Mumbai. Originally an architect by education
I decided to pursue art & design as a full time career. This
involved a lot of self learning and I’ve been working in the
industry for about 3 years now. Art and design have always
been a passion for me growing up and I’m glad I’m able to do
what I love everyday.
Tell us about your collaboration with a client from
conception to creation and the end product.
My most recent collaboration was of course with the band
The Koniac Net for their album ‘They Finally Herd Us’. They
sent across their new music and a few ideas they had as a
band for the artwork. So I listened to the music to understand
the vibe of the album and came up with a composition based
on the ideas they presented in their brief. They were very
easy to work with and the fact that they had a vision which
completely aligned with my own interpretation meant that the
process of creating the artwork was pretty smooth. Making
sure all of the various elements worked together to create a
composition that told a story was probably the most fun part
of creating the album art.
What are your thoughts on how other art apart from
music is perceived in our music scene? (Like visual arts,
album arts, photographers and the likes)
I think at this point in the indie music industry, you can see a
lot of merging of talents. It’s become such a huge collaboration
of media, whether it be animation, music, art, video or
photography, everyone is coming together to create a more
wholesome product. This in my opinion allows for all these
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art forms to have symbiotic relationships with one another
while standing out in their respective fields as well. At the end
of the day we are all looking to express an emotion or an idea
and that commonality is probably what drives us to expand
beyond what is expected.
Tell us a little bit about the process that is involved in
making a piece by Hanisha.
I do think more often than not it’s more madness than method.
Sometimes I have ideas at the oddest of times and I end
up thinking about it for days until I finally decide to piece
together a composition. But then there are also moments
where I just start drawing something at random without any
idea of where I’m going and I just eventually find myself at the
end. It’s completely just dependent on where I am in my head.
How is creating an album art different from creating
other art?
When I’m approached by bands to create album art I do try
to make sure I know their intent behind the music they’ve
created since it’s their expression, and then I work on
combining it with my own interpretations of the music. I
definitely think it’s more of a collaborative effort than when I
create art for myself.
Tell us about your art style and the concepts behind
your artworks.
My art style is quite eclectic. I don’t like to stick to one style
so I make sure I sort of dabble and create something different
every once in a while. I think I make it a point to not be too
recognizable which also lets me take up varied projects. I do
however love to draw women and I think that’s a recurring
theme in my work.