Flying Eyeball (Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fillmore Auditorium, BG-105) · Rick Griffin, 1968
The draft. Wings sprout from the sides of the eyeball rather than the top, and a flame licks up at the right, which is where the device started.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
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Gypsy Eye' is a tribute to two of the most influential artists of our times. Jimi Hendrix channeled cosmic psychedelia on soundwaves: Rick Griffin captured the same with ink and color. Griffin's 'Flying Eyeball' is a fitting visual mascot for the Voodoo Child.
This was an unused draft.
