Illustration of two aggressive, maned dogs fighting inside a human head, with brains and skull visible.
A mostly black image with some faint lines and shapes visible.

I was contacted by the band Rosa Moribunda to create the cover artwork for their single “Ruidos,” part of their album “52”. The song blends elements of hard blues and jazz, infused with psychedelic and progressive rock.

The track explores the idea of society as a noise, a distortion of injustice, violence, and false clarity, where individuals are manipulated into worshiping those who control them. It also reminds us that each person carries their own truth, as the most abstract and eternal of all truths.

To capture that message, I aimed to visualize the mental noise present in the lyrics through a deeply personal symbol. During my mother’s most difficult moments of depression, she used to describe her anguish as “crazy horses” running inside her mind. I transformed that intimate metaphor into a reflection of both inner and collective pain, born from the oppression of being forced to conform, from the fear of not being allowed to exist freely as oneself.

Client: Rosa Moribunda

Creative advisors: Cristián Nuñez, Alessandro Ramirez, Matías Zúñiga, Alejandro Villarroel and Gonzalo Barrueto

Final illustration

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