Louis Collins

For this song, I focused on the repeated line "The angels laid him away". I found the notion of angels extremely comforting but also ethereal and otherworldly. I wanted to show my own abstract representation of "angels" coming down and laying Louis Collins' soul to rest. Another line that fascinated me was "the people they dressed in red". I found red to be an unusual color associated to funerals, so I wanted a splatter of red in the painting as well. Louis Collins was mentioned to have been shot to death, so the red splatter represents his blood leaving him, overlaid over the angels coming to take him away.