Behind The Artworks: Korbo - Amnésiste (2026)

The album artwork is made by artist Aria Fawn. Here are a few words from her:

This is one of the only paintings I’ve ever struggled to talk about. All my work has stories, and this one is different only in that the story it has to tell turned out to be far more difficult for me to put into words than most. My art is about the experience of being alive, particularly the more shadowy parts we don’t always like to talk about. It’s important for me to work with these shadows so that they have a place to freely exist while still leaving room for light. I’m a big believer in hope, and I’ve often found that darkness is one of the best places to find the rarest forms of that powerful emotion. For this painting, however, the experience hit a bit closer to home. It touched on something I myself didn’t know how to find hope in. Deep unsettling fears, dark family histories, and inner anxieties.

This is a piece about the process of watching someone you know lose themselves.

Whether to substance or illness, be it physical or mental, the process of this unique loss can leave you feeling as though you’re also losing yourself. I wonder if there is an art to loss? It’s not something we think about much, the art of a painful emotion. But maybe the art of loss is about finding all the creative ways in which you can face and know yourself through the pain of absence. Ways to discover, or rediscover, who and what you are without the person you’re missing. You may not recognise yourself, and that might be terrifying at first, but as with all art, if you’re willing to dig a bit deeper, you’ll uncover more. Suffering, maybe, but beauty as well. An entire world of buried gems revealing secret strengths.

When I painted this work, the winged chimera represented a loved one at last slipping away into peace, be it through death or recovery. Now, I feel that this chimera may also represent us, unfurling our shadowed shells to reveal something glinting and beautiful, sealing up all the many cracks our pain and loss have given us.

Thanks so much to Korbo for sharing this poignant experience with me by letting me create their cover. Working with musicians on such emotional and dark art is always healing in and of itself