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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and…

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Seven Eternal Truths and The Sons of Liberty

Stephen Green

November 10, 2025 - Sometimes without warning, a dream job appears, something you’ve always wanted to do. An opportunity to do a subject that’s become a permanent resident of your imagination, by one of your favorite artists. Mondo is releasing the soundtracks to the Metal Gear Solid series on vinyl, and somehow, I was tasked with doing the gatefold art to MGS2: Sons of Liberty.    Now, I wouldn’t call myself a gamer, but I would say that MGS is somewhere up there with Hellboy when it comes to fictional works I’m the most fond of. A lot has been said about the series; it’s influence, genius, weirdness- there’s nothing really like Metal Gear Solid. The most striking feature of the world of MGS to me has always been its ridiculously overpowered concept artist, the inimitable and immortal Yoji…

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