Maruska + Gomez Project#1 Feature

Designer Andrew Maruska Talks about his work with Photographer Ariana Gomez

Ariana and I really wanted to tackle the first project in a very conceptual way. Our good friend Evan Stark had written a short story that he was willing to share with us, and our concept quickly took off. The story is about a man who comes to a young man and convinces him to kill his brother. After the seed festers in the boys head, he has no other choice but to commit the vile act. A confrontation occurs and when the dust settles, the brother is unscathed and filled with remorse it was not on his terms.

We really wanted to add a second layer to the story with our photograph. Placing our model into a stark white room, we tried to elude that he may be a mental patient, which does creates several influences on how, where, and what this story is really about. The old man has now become several different people at once, is he the man in the beginning of the story? is that man the father? is that man the brother in later years? or does this story completely fabricated in this mans head? We have our own theories, but we would rather leave it open to the reader to taint their own experience with our visuals to the story.