This is the painting I submitted for a big fan-made birthday collage for the 50th birthday of Marko Saaresto, the singer/frontman of the band Poets of the Fall (my absolute favorite band of all time).

It’s inspired by the imagery from one of my favorite Poets videos/songs, “Daze,” and I’ve actually had something like this in mind for a long time, but it took Marko hitting the half-century mark to get me off my butt to finally do it (not that you’d know he was the age he is by looking at him—he’s either a vampire, or when he struck the bargain with the devil for his voice, he managed to get eternal youth bundled into the deal along with it).