
elliot mercer
ART DIRECTION · STYLING
Helping shape the visual world around the songs — from the atmosphere of a release to the details that make the whole thing feel connected.
Different voices. Shared songs. The people who make the noise — and the people who give it a world to live in.
unseen sea is a creative collective: a place for songs to be written, rewritten, sung, produced and occasionally interrupted by somebody else's voice.
Across the projects, the same themes keep appearing in different forms: desire, devotion, ridiculous humour, underwater mythology, grief, and characters who are never quite as sure of themselves as they sound. The perspective may change from song to song; sometimes a single story has more than one narrator.
This is the wider world around the work — one where collaborators can be writers, producers, performers or all three, and where the borders between the projects aren't always perfectly neat.
Five voices, several different versions of the story. The roles shift from song to song.
Not everyone has to sing to leave fingerprints on the songs. Some people make the images, catch what happens between takes, or send it all out into the world.

ART DIRECTION · STYLING
Helping shape the visual world around the songs — from the atmosphere of a release to the details that make the whole thing feel connected.

PHOTOGRAPHY · SOCIAL MEDIA
Finding the images and in-between moments, then helping the world outside the songs see them too.
Credits and roles may vary by release. The sea is not particularly good at job descriptions.