Marceli Klimek

Credit to Atlus Sega, not my designs or composition, I have no idea where this exact promotional art is from but it is very relevant to the text so enjoy. To express yourself you have to believe that there is someone out there that understands you. A fervent bet on something unknown. With it being impossible to truly know how someone sees you from their perspective. You build new versions of yourself with every person you meet.  This is what I believe Persona 4 Dancing All Night represents. The following analysis and review are based on the 2015 video game published by Atlus. It is a spin-off from the main series of Persona games and specifically Persona 4 Golden.  A soundtrack review, looking at the themes behind certain individual tracks but mainly the whole album. Coming from the perspective of someone who knows nothing of music theory or instruments but has played the games and listened to these tracks extensively. A DANCING GAME!!!! Full of remixes of songs from the origi...

Composition: credit to Atlus for persona 4 golden intro cutscene ps vita screenshot and Katya Freydina for modelling, other images consist of personal photography from hanger lane tube station and an Ethel Cain concert captured on ps vita. There is a lot I want out of my art and all of it feels contradictory and overwhelming. Working from music, cinema, the post-impressionist movement, modernist, post-modernist, meta-modernist theories and much more. I’m not confident that I covered all these subjects in the detail that they deserve individually though I stand by the finished product. This isn’t an exercise in retroactively justifying any shortcomings in technical execution or theory. Design decisions in most cases were sporadically led by emotion and thoughts about people and situations happening at the time. Those people, situations and actively acknowledging time in this project created a narrative. A narrative that I believe contributes to a framework which uses the unique qualitie...

  Image Credit: Marceli Klimek, Konrad Kozaczek, Katya Freydina Many of the ideas I put forward for Cuh Opilamonnia Rs were abstract and broad. I want to go into them specifically in future entries in this blog. This is somewhat backwards to how I should talk about this project because this entry is me reviewing my thought processes with information that you, the reader, might not be privy to. Now that this project is complete, there are many things I want to build on because a lot of the beliefs I made my design decisions on were tied to my life and personal experiences. These have proven to evolve since and deserve a resolution or alternate take. So much was everywhere and now I want to limit and contain it. Making this project for a friend, for someone, communicating person to person. Art that excludes a majority audience to prioritise an individual can be for someone the artist knows superficially like a celebrity or a close friend or family member. With the former, true commun...