VISUALS
intentionality guides perception
In art, much like in life, changes to individual elements impacts the realization of the whole.
The right sensory experience at the right time, combined with an appropriate intellectual approach, elevates life from the mundane to the meaningful.
In this spirit, visual intentionality is a core component in each multimedia project Lunar Languages produces. Intentionality in the realm of music, lyric, and creative composition demands a matching intentionality in how an audience is ushered into a personal experience with a multimedia work.
“Reclamation 1, 2, and 3” — Emmy Pehrson, October 2019
Photograph Manipulation
In much of my work, I heavily manipulate photographs I have taken to create synthetic images that maintain a natural feeling.
In many cases, I layer dozens of my photos atop one another with more than fifteen rounds of processing, resulting in colorful data-mosh-esque art. Sometimes, at later processing rounds, elements of earlier processed images are reintroduced to the work.
The contstraints imposed by incorporating previous iterations of image processing create the impression of watching a piece settle into its own identity in real time.
“Polygon Refuge (2025),” “Birthmirror (2020)” and “Shellrooms (2021)” - Emmy Pehrson
Digital Collage
Through intentionality in creation, Lunar Languages projects invite the audience to have intentionality in engagement. While multimedia projects are often music-focused, there are myriad doors open for an audience to critically engage with and explore work that has been purposefully juxtaposed with music.
Much of this juxtaposed work comes in the form of digital booklets with poetry, quotations, digital collage, photographs, and more. These digital booklets are accessed through a free download on Bandcamp with purchase of a Lunar Languages project.
These components will soon be hosted natively on lunarlanguages.com to remove barriers to access Lunar Languages projects.
!["Credits Spread [Clean] (04-05)" from Shades of Living Light - Emmy Pehrson, October 2021](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609462ee8dea73758cffd51d/3654df94-aba1-47a6-8e5d-c3c8b4c05321/04%3A05+Clean.jpeg)
!["Structures" from [Unreleased] - Emmy Pehrson, January 2021](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609462ee8dea73758cffd51d/fef5b33f-5f61-4d67-b103-2024c19f0937/Structure.jpeg)
Art spreads from Shades of Living Light - Emmy Pehrson, 2021
Photography and Digital Collage
Visual consideration does not start and stop at album art, booklet art, and cinematography—the principles behind ergodic literature guide poetic formatting and positioning on the page.
Enjambment is critical to the form of poetry, which implies space itself as being equally critical. The formatting of a page invites or pushes away an audience member, and the level to which that invitation or rejection is visually extended is tantamount to the language presented. Poetry projects on this site are often only able to be shared as .pdfs or images—each internet user’s browser window is differently sized and zoomed, and this impacts how their computer renders space and enjambment.
Everything exists in juxtaposition to become whole. The examples below are a manifestation of this idea taken to the extreme.
Selected poems - Emmy Pehrson, 2021 - 2025
Poetry