Prosthetics

In the works for more than two years, Van Boom and I desired to create something unusual that dealt with shifted identities, particularly individuals who are attuned to a constrained society. Van Boom's story examines the idea of Prosthetics as a terminal outsider in cross junction with the album. His work questions what is forbidden and what is binary in an uncompromising context. Diverse conceptual themes, like the body-exclusive society, surgical distortions, bodily modification, and potentially life-altering decisions, are portrayed in the artwork. I had designed and tattooed the pattern on our good friend Nomi, who offered her full back for the piece and transformed it into a portrait, after reflecting on Prosthetics and how we established physicality in the cover artwork.