ISSUES WINNER PROFILE Name: Vince Queau Win Status: Runner up Age: 24 Sex: Male Location: Minnesota, U.S.A. Email: JonasHex01@cs.com

Favorite Music

Korn, Ministry, Murder Inc., Beastie Boys, Limp Bizkit, Front 242, Tool, Rob Zombie, O.D.B., Method Man, Revolting Cocks, System of a Down, Static-X, Primus, Sister Machine Gun, Filter, Chris Connley, KMFDM

About

Vince is from Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada and moved to the US in 1985. He attended Art college for two and a half years where he studies illustration, drawing, and printmaking

Vince's influences include Dave McKean, Gustav Klimt, Marshall Arisman, C.F. Payne, Matt Mahurin, Korn, and Albrect Durer.

Winning Cover

When I found out about the Korn contest the question that rang through my head the whole time was... "What the hell is the name of the album?" I never heard any rumours to what the album was titled. The things that popped into my head was the whole "Children of the Korn" gig. They really seemd to stress that with the Follow the Leader album. So I started coming up with ideas about what direction the guys in Korn would take. I figured they may take the Children of the Korn thing and run with it.... but at the same time they might be really burnt on that and take a new direction. So I came up with about six ideas and narrowed them down from there. The ideas I narrowed it down to were a girl in her bed with the insinuation of some form of abuse going to happen... an impending doom type of thing. The second was a Children of the Korn idea... Which ended up taking the form of kids with keyholes in their heads and hollowed out eyes (no eyeballs) Kind of an unlocking of their minds, or what's locked into the childrens heads.... And the final which I wasn't able to do, but a child or a group of children playing marbles or something of the sort looking at a shadow behind the chain link fence looking at them or the one child...

Vince's winning cover His second entry

The "Korn Kids" turned out fairly cool (I think). I deliberatly left space on the top and bottom for the name of the album and Korns name. It's dimensions were 25" X 25"

The runner-up cover was 13" X 13". I had a bunch of old newspapers lying around from the 1930's to the 1940's. I ended up going through all of them and looked for pertinant articles to the whole Korn Image... (little kids, angry fathers, abuse, etc. etc.) Well the one thing about that time period (1930's to 1940's), is that child abuse was not a subject of conversation.

People were really hush-hush about it back then, so I thought it would be interesting to take articles or headlines that could be interpreted as such from that time period. I'm not sure if you can see it but on the upper left hand corner there's a girl on the phone and the article by her was about "The kids these days" type of thing.

So after I assembled the border I took black strips and put them over the eyes of the kids, a girl, and the only man smiling. The angry or hostile faces I left open. A type of censoring the happiness... The picture in the middle is of a girl with two bunny dolls with her father/stepfathers shadow in the background. It was origianlly going to be a monotype (a printmaking technique) but it went through several phases from that... I used P.H. martins ink, gesso, and colored pencil on the center pic. after the center pic was done I assemble it and glazed both the border and picture with gel medium and did an oil glaze on top of that to get the final picture...

My cover really doesn't really have a title but I think I'd title it "Puzzle", or something of the sort...