Behind The Artworks: Through The Fractures - Beyond The Scars (2026)

The cover says in one image what the album spends ten songs saying: the light comes out through the wound.

At the centre is a figure turned inward, head split open, and the crack is the only thing on the cover that gives off light. Nothing else is lit. The damage is the source. Out of that same body, life is growing, plants rooted in the skin the fracture runs through, feeding on it rather than hiding it.

Around the figure there's a circle, and that circle is the bubble. It's the world we build around ourselves when things get hard, when the outside becomes too loud to take in whole. It isn't a prison. It's a filter. When you can no longer let everything reach you, you start choosing what gets in.

Outside it, there's nature, and we made it deliberately unreadable. The animal in the dark might be about to attack, or it might be calling out to guide you home. The branches pushing in from the edges might be about to strike, or they might be a hand held out. From inside the bubble, you can't tell the difference, and that's the point. Threat and help look identical from a distance. Everything depends on what you let through, and everything you let through is a risk. We wanted a cover that refuses to resolve, exactly like the songs do. No rescue, no monster. Just a person, a crack, and a light that only exists because something broke.

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