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Commissioned by american heavy metal legends AT WAR as a cover for their record "Infidel", this image leaves little to imagination... I mean, it's pretty straight forward in what it stands for.

it is designed to be controversial and It definetelly do not represents this artist's philopsophy and beliefs.]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:12:50 +0000 http://bergamind.cgsociety.org/gallery/793824

Everyone of us have different perceptions of the world around. They say life is divided in two kinds of people; those who se the cup half empty and those who see it half full... How optimistic (or crazy) someone must be to see the cup full when is empty??? well, that's pretty much the idea.

Someone said to me it is a depressing image... Someone said to me it is an optimistic image... seems it hits bullseye on the title right?

cheers ]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:09:55 +0000 http://bergamind.cgsociety.org/gallery/619365

A new artwork for a very cool new record; Swedish band Angel Blake's second album "The Descended".

The concept this time, is a tricky one. The voyage from this life to the next one... the transition from the plane of the living to the plane of the dead. How we as culture and in our minds deal with that concept; with that permanent situation that generate infinite questions and very few answers.

The idea was to approach the subject as poetically as possible but with a very blant modern aesthetic.

For that purpose I took inspiration from ancient greek mythology (that's a new one uh?). Greeks believed that Charon took the newly dead across the river Styx (or Acheron in christian mytholgy). A river that separates the world of the living from the underworld or Hades. Styx it is said winds around Hades nine times. Despite modern connotations about Hades being Hell or evil, in greek mythology was a place where all mortals go to be judged after death and are either rewarded or cursed. A place of contemplation if you will... I like that idea.

Charon (Caronte in latin) is the first character to appear in Dante's Inferno (Divina Comedia, Canto Dell'Inferno, 1308). King Diamond wrote a song about him in his album "Fatal Portrait" (1986).

This image however, is a very personal approach to the mythos. I combined several ancient concepts, placed them in a modern everyday enviroment and played with the idea of both planes being on top of each other or using the same space, but in different frecuencies. The dead can see the living, but not the other way around. For some reason that idea send shivers down my spine.

For Charon, I used the modern archetypical representation of the Angel of death or Grim Reaper (although it might represent The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to some of you) just because I knew no one would've been familiar with the greek's or christian's original depictions of Charon... not even Dante's version of him. Besides this is a METAL cover... XD.

The design for the boat is greek (1500 BC), and historically acurate... you can check on that.

So I guess all of this is my way of saying that death being just a transition, it's something I will face alone... this is true today as it was 3000 years ago.




"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
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I recently realized that fate is a concept featured in many of my images... this guy is just a casualty of fate... A superior entity with the power to turn him into something that he's not. I think the original concept was "don't fix it if isn't broken"

Image produced for southamerican thrash metal legends, Criminal

cheers!]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:46:27 +0000 http://bergamind.cgsociety.org/gallery/604337

This piece is called "Via Obscura" which is latin for "Dark Path". The image was comisioned by the Fresno CA rock band HateFx to be used as cover art for their CD. The starting point was the art of Hieronymus Bosch... a mixture of onyric nightmare and personal interpretations of modern mythology; by the time I started proposing concept sketches for this comission I was reading a lot of Lovecraft and "illuminati" books by David Icke... so this is my aproach to this rumored ancient society that in secret rule the world.

This prosession of Illuminati are on their way to a very special gathering.

enjoy!]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:09:39 +0000 http://bergamind.cgsociety.org/gallery/603055

The concept for this image is sonic tsunami... it was commissioned by guitar virtuoso Lucas Yaksic as cover for his album Vol. 10. My idea was to recreat those classic 70s catastrophe movie posters like "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Earthquake" but with a rock and roll theme.

enjoy!]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:43:14 +0000