Artistic Direction & Cover Art
Sarah MK
New Album ‘Wax & Gold’
Had the pleasure to work on the artistic direction of Sarah MK’s new album “Wax & Gold”. Created 3 customs paper pieces for the album/singles covers.
Creative Team
AD & Design: Over The Breaks
AD & Paper Art: Pauline Loctin
Photo: Vladim Vilain
MUA: Marie-Pier Durand
Clothes: Lakuachimoto
Styling: Haji Maa
The title of the album ‘’Wax and Gold’ is an Ethiopian saying and tradition that influences the way the Habesha population views the world. Here’s a description by author Mohammed Girma:
The wax and gold tradition, what is it? Literally, wax is a natural secretion of gold that is produced in the process of purification. It is an element that covers the gold; in order to get the purest gold, it has to undergo the process of melting in fire. It is this metaphor, therefore, that is applied to a literary system that is given as a compulsory course in secondary and high schools in Ethiopia: Sen-ena-Werq (= wax and gold). As a literary system, the wax and gold method plays with double-layered meaning. While the apparent meaning, on the surface, is known as Sem (= wax), the underlying true, and, at times, spiritual meaning, is known as Werq (= gold).
“Wax and Gold” custom piece for the cover album.
Cover Album “Wax & Gold”
Cover first single “MITTOS”