For our Spring Travel Issue, we invited an artist whose world feels like a vivid awakening. Madisun Redfeldt’s cover unfolds as a surreal, joy-soaked landscape where nature pulses with personality, colors melt into one another, and every detail hums with playful intention. Drawing from nostalgic touchstones and psychedelic daydreams alike, the piece blurs the line between inner journey and outward adventure — suggesting that the most meaningful travel isn’t about distance, but about perspective.
In this conversation, the artist takes us inside her “Party Animals” universe, where Miss Mary Jane leads the way, the path is anything but linear, and the trip is as much about connection as it is about destination.
Did you work intuitively, or was the composition planned out in advance?
Because there was so much freedom in the brief, the composition just flowed.
How did cannabis or psychedelic culture influence your visual language here?
My biggest influence was the OG Alice in Wonderland — as a child I loved this film, and the idea of a spring cover was so aligned with talking tulips, drippy hills, and trippy creatures coming out to play.
Do you see this world as an altered reality, or a heightened version of our own?
This world is my happy place — but it’s just another day in the Party Animals universe. Where everyone’s coming together for a good time with Miss Mary Jane, who’s got them beats.
Are any of the characters or elements inspired by personal experiences or journeys?
Absolutely — the way the colors melt into each other, how the vines dance with one another, and how all the little forest creatures come out just to say hello is inspired by nature trips and hikes with the homies. Nothing beats a trip in nature.
What artists, movements, or references influenced this piece, and your work in general?
Alice in Wonderland inspired the plants coming to life, the brick road is a nod to Dorothy’s journey in The Wizard of Oz, the bunny came from Easter falling in spring, and Miss Mary Jane is accessorized straight out of the 90s.
There are so many hidden moments—do you have a favorite detail people might miss at first glance?
For me it’s all the little bugs. The two bookworms falling in love on top of a mushroom, the bunny’s chain, and last but not least — my G, the goat.
The sun, sky, weed leaf, and landscape all have faces — what’s the intention behind anthropomorphizing nature?
It’s second nature for me. I like depicting the world how it could be if we all lived free.
This is the Travel Issue—how does this piece represent travel to you?
This illustration depicts Miss Mary Jane following her “yellow” brick road — less yellow, more trippy, but the message is the same. It’s less about where you’re going and more about who you’re going there with, and the journey it takes you on.
Is this more about physical travel, or internal/spiritual exploration?
Both and neither. It depends on the mind of the viewer. This other world doesn’t play by our rules — it’s a place for you to experience and explore in whatever way best serves you. Whether that’s across the Atlantic or crisscross applesauce on your living room floor, the vacation is yours to take. And trust me when I say — you deserve it.
If this world were a destination, what kind of experience would it offer?
This is the kind of place where plants smile and wave, Miss Mary Jane’s bumping old school beats on her 90s boombox, and overgrown green fields and big blue skies make all your worries drift away. You don’t know where you’re going or what’s gonna come your way — but the path is paved and the joints are on the way.
What role does nature play in your perception of expanded consciousness?
Nature is not only a tool but a shelter — a living, breathing space that heals, soothes, and holds us no matter where we meet it. Some plants go even further, unlocking states of consciousness beyond explanation, reason, science — beyond everything we thought we knew about reality. It is, without question, one of our greatest gifts.
What do you hope someone feels when they see this cover?
I hope it takes them back — back to when the sun was warm on their face, joy came easy, and the days were so much simpler. I love creating work that feels nostalgic and childlike, especially now, when the world could use a little more of both.
How does this piece reflect where you are in your creative journey right now?
Somehow this piece became an exact snapshot of my current journey. I am Miss Mary Jane. Paving my own path, dancing to my own beat one doodle at a time. I’m at the very beginning of my art journey, and it’s looking like it’s gonna be one for the books. My homies are right there with me, because what’s the point of any of it if we’re not doing it together? And call it fate, call it divine intervention — somewhere up ahead there’s a cool purple lady with dope tattoos and a fat hash joint, leading me toward the sun.
If you could step into this world, where would you go first?
I’d kick it with Miss Mary Jane.
What other artistic journeys are you taking at the moment?
I run my own creative studio, Plot Twist — where we do websites, illustrative projects, and branding. I also launched Party Animals, a streetwear brand by ravers for ravers. I have exciting collaborations coming this summer and fall with festivals, artists, labels, and locally owned mom-and-pop shops. And if that wasn’t enough, I’m deep in prep for my very first collection of mixed media paintings — dropping at my open studio this May.
