🎵 IT058: Rhythmic Stabbing
✏️ Honey Parast
🗓 31.03.20

Honey is an illustrator and art toy maker based in Bristol, UK.

Heya Honey. Can you tell us a little bit about your tape and your song selections?

Hello! Work gets a little monotonous for me so I made a bit of a frolicsome playlist to help me maintain a steady tempo when needle-felting. It’s filled with mostly surfy strings and makes me feel like I’m accompanying each track with a strange percussive instrument.

What direction did you take with your cover art, and what was your process?

I think being in dire need of a self portrait of some sort and wanting to showcase how I work went hand in hand for this. A fair few people are still a little unfamiliar with needle-felting so it felt like a nice demonstration.

I start with a florist wire frame if I’m not 100% sure what I want the final pose to be and start bulking it out with toy-stuffing and use dyed merino wool on top to colour. I scrambled together what I could for the props from my flat which involved various things like toothbrushes, weeds from the garden and emptying out spice jars to store wool in.

What are your fave album covers, records with a great music and artwork combo, or musical projects with a visual component?

In the first week of uni, someone on my course introduced me to Keaton Henson’s Birthdays album and I adored it. The cover sort of reaffirmed illustration could literally be taken in any direction.