Behind The Artworks: Shores Of Null - Homesick (2026)

Some artworks illustrate an album. Others seem to have been waiting for it. That's exactly how we felt when we discovered Reflection: Departed, a piece by photographer and visual artist Brooke Shaden from her Begin Again series, which we ultimately chose as the cover artwork for Homesick. The artwork portrays a figure climbing through an empty frame, leaving behind shattered pieces of glass on the ground. As Brooke describes it, the frame represents the way we frame our lives and the places we look to in search of belonging and a sense of self. But here the glass is shattered, and the frame stands empty. Is she breaking free from her cage, or becoming trapped even further inside it? That ambiguity resonates deeply with the concept of Homesick. The album revolves around the contradiction contained within the idea of homesickness itself: the longing to return to something familiar, while knowing that what we call "home" may also be the source of our pain. Throughout the record, home becomes something far more complex than a physical place. It can be a person, a memory, a state of mind, or a former version of ourselves. It can comfort us, but it can also haunt us. The artwork captures that tension beautifully. The figure is neither arriving nor leaving, neither free nor imprisoned, suspended between departure and return, much like the emotional space inhabited by the songs themselves. For us, nostalgia is not simply a refuge. It is also the courage to face the past and the realization that, however painful it may be, our history is what ultimately shaped who we are.

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