THEY SCREAM

“They Scream” is a crossover design of 2 iconic references from pop culture and cult cinema. The “Screaming Hand” by Jim Phillips designed for Santa Cruz skateboards in (1985).

And the film “They Live” by John Carpenter (1988) where a man finds glasses that allow him to see people in their authentic alien appearance and read all the subliminal messages that aim to turn humans into a species enslaved to consumerism.

In this new design you can see the screaming hand intervened with the same application used in the aliens in Carpenter's film.

The illustration was drawn and inked on paper and then printed on T-shirts using silkscreen .

The name “They Scream” is a mixture of the names of the two references “They” for (They Live) and Scream for “screaming hand”.

Under the illustration of the hand as a background, a texture is created made of all the subliminal messages that we see hidden in Carpenter's film such as: Obey, Consume, Conform, Yield, No thoughts, Buy, Marry and reproduce, This is your God... etc

Worked in such a way that they continue on a plane of subliminality like a red block. The codes and symbols that make up this design reflect on the ideology of the product from the piece of art to the ideological implant in the collective unconscious.

But what is interesting apart from the conceptual support is the artisanal serial work by returning the image to a support using screen printing as a resignification of value to the unique piece.

Each piece is unique since there is no original piece.