Muse: Alternate Vinyl Cover

Alternate album art for one of my favorite songs from Muse.

It consists of four images. It involved lots of photomanipulation with blending effects and gradient maps. The goal was to try and capture the gradual and somewhat trippy escalation of the track's intensity while also maintaining a sense of serenity and bliss. It portrays the slow buildup of the butterfly effect as known in chaos theory: the flapping of a butterfly's wings somewhere far away can result in an increasingly violent chain reaction that could cause a hurricane.

The band's cover art tends to skew abstract and open-ended when it comes to using photographs for album art, so I wanted to explore what happens when you blend a bunch of images together to form a scene in the viewer's head as they listen to the track.