GRAPHIC DESIGN: STORY PROJECT‘THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL’ - NINE INCH NAILSTRACK 3: HERESYI end

GRAPHIC DESIGN: STORY PROJECT‘THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL’ - NINE INCH NAILSTRACK 3: HERESYI ended up resorting to some photoshop trickery by means of the clone stamp tool, to borrow from selected areas of the image and use them to blend out others. This afforded me the space to place the NIN logo, which I manipulated to look uniform with the other protruding pieces of the manhole cover. My selection of this manhole cover for the song ‘Heresy’ made sense as there was what looked identical to the Christian cross at the bottom of it. Heresy is one of the more intense tracks on the album, both sonically and lyrically. Following the fall out of ‘Piggy’ and the declaration of “nothing can stop me now…”, our protagonist has decided that it is up to them to overthrow God. “God is deadAnd no one caresIf there is a hellI’ll see you there”A clear reference to Nietzsche, the protagonist believes God, or more specifically the manifestation of the Christian god as a means of control, to be the cause of their suffering and indeed that of the world. They are willing to accept the consequences of their actions, which are outright blasphemy and would condemn them to hell. I think the manhole is well suited in this case, not just for the cross, but for its symbolism as a gateway to the underworld, or in our protagonists case, hell.  -- source link

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