The work on Through A Glass Darkly‘s cover for the Petcord album Luminal was pretty straight forward, as it fell into a rather creative phase of mine. There were two drafts. Both had their pros and cons, however it was the synthesis between that turned the cover into a winner. A prominent feature of the cover is the repetition of certain ratios which somehow matches to the fractal nature of the original artwork. It also takes a different approach how to integrate an already existing artwork into a cover draft, by not just displaying the work as a whole, but using it as some kind of raw material.

In any case, the cover pretty much reflects the character of the music and is certainly one of the better ideas I had so far. Whether I’m going to continue this style remains to be seen as I’ve been missing some purely graphic elements for a while and expect them to become more prominent in future covers.