Miles Tsang: Copy Of A

In July and August 2014, two of rock's biggest bands Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden embarked on a North American co-headlining tour. For most artists, designing a gig poster for Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden, together, is a dream scenario. It is also uncommon, as acts at this level in the music industry typically do not have a co-headlining gig poster. Heavyweight veterans of the poster scene such as Jermaine Rogers, Emek, and Brad Klausen were hired to create several posters for the tour. Enter Miles Tsang, a young illustrator and printmaker from Toronto, who had started in the industry only a few years earlier. Miles had made an impression upon collectors, enthusiasts, and apparently, the bands' merchandise teams who had curated an appropriate lineup of gig poster legends. Up for the challenge, and ahead of his time, Miles created a stunning piece of art which he titled "Copy of A," after the Nine Inch Nails song of the same name. He describes it as "a recursive moment shared by mechanized man and his broken reflection inspired by the art of Caravaggio and the music of Trent Reznor." "Copy of A" stands as a piece in which Miles Tsang forced the industry to recognize he was amongst the greatest artists in the scene, forging his own path with a style that was uniquely his own.