I Would Hurt a Fly

Built to Spill Fan Art

Built to Spill has been one of my all-time favorite bands, and their music has influenced my art for years. Perfect from Now On is an album that will always be with me. Largely this is because of my favorite track from the band, "I Would Hurt a Fly". The song’s opening lyrics capture obsession and paranoia so vividly that it feels like the band wants you to experience it firsthand.

Those words stuck with me. They swam around in my head until one day I wrote them out on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. From there, I pulled the design into Illustrator and turned it into a piece of fan art, a small tribute to a band that has given me so much.

September 1, 2015

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