Behind The Artworks: The Wring - Nemesis (2024)

A friend of mine is a graphic designer and is responsible for all cover art and packaging for Nemesis and for the previous album, Spectra. Our process is now predictable and somewhat amusing. I sit down and carefully mock up ideas and concepts complete with artwork and other images. He then takes my ideas and converts them into proper visualizations but then he will stick a couple of his own ideas on at the end. We always go with his ideas. The cover depicts a cool image of a jellyfish. Oceans are a critical element in our survival and the jellyfish is an interesting allegory; deadly to humans, food for turtles and sensitive to human-caused climate change. A kind of circle of Nemesis…