This image was born from an instant identification with the persona of Zero from the masterpiece, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The figure of the person who doesn’t recognise their own reflection always resonated as a powerful evocation for a lonely, introspective youth. I translated this feeling of depersonalisation and melancholy. More than just an illustration for “Zero,” the work is an amalgamation of concepts orbiting his tragic history-the fragility of Glass, and the images of a Whyte Spyder, with references to I of the Mourning.

The visual inspiration came directly from the lucid surrealism of René Magritte. The negation of the familiar image, the juxtaposition of the mundane with the dreamlike, and that sense of unease which invites introspection. The final result is not merely a tribute, but an interior self-portrait; a place where infinite sadness tries to find its own, strange beauty.