Dazed Beauty Presents: Grimes Supernatural

Our fourth digital cover star is Grimes. In the nebulous climate emergency, environmental disaster-effacing art that discards the narratives we’re used to consuming is integral for our progress and survival.

Grimes – the musical ego of musician and producer Claire Boucher, otherwise known as c – has been exploring this need, crafting her own cultural universe through the prism of human extinction, as her forthcoming fifth album MISS_ANTHROPOCENE makes anthropomorphic figures of the things that threaten our annihilation. In her cover story for Dazed Beauty, she takes on some of these natural threats and modern anxieties to make them capricious higher beings – in one she is a goddess of plastic, her sprigs of hair molten and reformed into a crown as she presides over a burning Earth; the other is a goddess of sinister man-made technology, a deepfake face flickering from the visages of internet and pop culture icons (Marilyn Monroe to Kim Kardashian, Mark Zuckberg, Anna Nicole Smith, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the well-used crying cat meme) as she finds her true form. The earth that humans have tried to dominate and destroy, one we have made an ever-growing adversary, becomes pop.

Credits

Concept & CD Isamaya Ffrench @isamayaffrench Ben Ditto @ben_ditto
Artwork Jon Emmony @jonemmony

Digital beauty Sam Fuller @arcjustice
CGI + AI tech Ryan Vautier @ryan_vautier
Soundtrack James Kelly @wifesounds