“Funk 16” Dark Matter Coffee, Bag Illustration. (2023). Artwork, Details, Story, and Process ✨🎨✍️💫

When Dark Matter Coffee approached me with this project, they threw me a prompt that made my imagination explode in a million different directions: to illustrate a scene in which aliens have crash landed into an old truck stop diner and are in a full blown battle to take it over…oh, and make it FUNKY🌟 I decided to dig into my love for the Funk era and illustrate a gang of insanely groovy alien musicians hijacking the diner’s jukebox and taking over the restaurant with the irresistible power of Funk..🕺🪩

What I find most inspiring about Funk music is that at its core, it was unhinged self-expression, the heartbeat of a revolution, a symphony of defiance..The Funk era was a time of complete transformation, where the spirits of social change and musical innovation danced hand in hand. As an artist, I am eternally enthralled by Funk's boundless creativity and impact and use it as a compass for unleashing my imagination to create pieces with an essence of genuine soul and purpose.