San Francisco-based artist Mel Prest has a way with Led Zeppelin's words -- she maps them into drawings. Pictured right is her take on "Stairway to Heaven."
Prest, who intends to work her way through the first five Zep albums, has an interesting, if complex, method: "Each drawing is a unique song spelled letter by letter in gouache, ink, pencil and watercolor on Fabriano paper. There are 25 dots, plotted out in a grid, which correspond to the first 25 letters of the alphabet.
When mistakes are made, that word is spelled by a single, discordant color."
Prest's work is on view in the group show The Space Between at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where she's running a workshop on color next month. She talks about her art here.
Image courtesy melprest.com
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