On Choosing an Analogue Process

The process of making this cover what somewhat silly, and entirely fun. You see, I cut out the band members from photographs taken by Camille NG, only I did it in Photoshop. I then printed them out, and cut them out physically with an exacto knife and arranged them on craft paper. I took a photo of this arrangement as you see it, for reference. Then I took it all apart and scanned those into the computer as separate pieces. Would you believe that I had to cut those same people out a third time, again in Photoshop, only to arrange them in a digital space the same way I had in the physical space, only this time with more control for scale, colour, contrast, etc? This album cover was only intended for digital spaces, but I still made it crafty. Life is more fun that way.

The printer ink lines are not a thrown-on digital texture, they’re the result of printing from my shitty printer. The way the scanner on that same shitty printer reads some of the darks in a strange way? That is art. That is purposeful degradation through process. Can you believe that these were once beautiful full colour high resolution digital images?

But now—BEHOLD!
A bona fide collage, from my fold-out table to your smart phone.

Thank you Mike Kerr for giving me such complete creative freedom with your album art. <3