Behind The Artworks: Empty Spaces - The Enemy (Single) (2026)

The artwork came from a series of many ideas, but one that stood out from the beginning was simple yet conveyed the meaning and value around the song. A single Oil drum barrel on fire at night in a field. You might ask, well, what has that got to do with a song called The Enemy? You could say nothing, or you could say everything; you could use a Deep metaphor and say the barrel acts as society's constraints, and the fire burning is the spark and drive we all have within us waiting to break free, with the overall image encased in trees and a night sky representing nature around our own man-made jungles. But then again, who wants to get that deep when it comes to a song about seizing the day?

 

The artwork did go through changes and evolved, starting with different iterations sketched out very basically. The fire changed back and forth between being a city skyline in flames to just a raging fire. The hardest part was deciding what copy we wanted on the cover or if we wanted any at all. As time was crunching, we had to make decisions fast but also make sure we made the right ones. We started with the title of the song, one word being placed at the top left and another to the bottom right. Personally (Stevo-Singer), I loved it because it drew your eye line from one side to the other, taking in the artwork along the way. From there we tried a few others with different fonts but ended on the title being in the left corner and the logo on the right bottom corner. The artwork was finalised using Adobe and off out into the world it went.

 

So the next time you listen to The Enemy, look at the artwork and ask: what does it represent to me?

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