A screen still glows. A heart still beats. Something is transmitting, even after the person you knew has begun to disappear.
DEAD SIGNAL and HOLLOW FREQUENCY explore two fears at the centre of Cimmarian’s darker visual world: losing your place in reality, and losing the mind that once made that reality yours.
Both pieces give those fears a physical form.
DEAD SIGNAL
DEAD SIGNAL is about the horror of losing yourself in the physical world until you exist only through digital means.
Stripped of flesh, your expressions are hidden behind a screen. Everything you want to communicate must pass through glass, machinery and interference. People can still see an image of you. Whether they can reach you is another matter.
The character carries that idea literally: a battered CRT television replaces its head, trapping a ghostly face behind layers of broken signal. Exposed vertebrae and hanging cables connect the screen to what remains of a body.
The cables keep it connected. They offer no way back.
On the oversized faded tee, that figure fills the back above the distressed DEAD SIGNAL title. A smaller Cimmarian emblem sits on the front, carrying the same worn finish.
HOLLOW FREQUENCY
HOLLOW FREQUENCY turns inward, toward the terror of having your sanity taken from you until your heart is the only part still able to make itself heard.
The mind is already gone. Thoughts, memories and the ability to express them have fallen silent. The heart continues, sending its rhythm into a space that no longer answers.
The pale humanoid figure embodies that absence. Its expression is vacant, while the large circular mechanism in its chest draws attention to the last remaining source of sound. The heart becomes a speaker: still transmitting from an emptied self.
The black long-sleeve rash guard carries that figure on the front, with faint, broken signals running across the sleeves and HOLLOW FREQUENCY written across the back.
A signal after the self
These designs share a question: what remains when the things that make us human are taken away?
DEAD SIGNAL leaves a face behind a screen. HOLLOW FREQUENCY leaves a heartbeat without the mind that once understood it. Their machinery keeps functioning, making the absence within each figure harder to ignore.
Through monochrome artwork, fractured lettering and worn surfaces, both pieces bring that unease into Cimmarian clothing.
Which stays with you longer: being trapped behind the screen, or hearing your heart when your mind is already gone?
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