Meaning of the Covers

[NastyJoan]

Well I don't know all of you, but for me a lot of Travis Covers don't mean nothing related to the title of the album which they represent.
And of course there are some albums that the cover was made with implicity of the lyrics like the last King Diamond album, but perhaps Travis want us to malke our own impresions of the covers, here it is one of my impresions:

Dead Heart, in a Dead World : That kind of tree with pieces of a face and body shattered means to me a guy that is complete destroy from inside hanging by this pathetic tree, this has a lot to do with the lyrics of the title song, but as I wrote before, this is my perception of the cover.

Let's see what you guys think of the covers, doesn't matter waht album it is, just gave us your impresions of the meaning of these amazing covers artwork

 

[Seems like Trav]

for example, dead heart was a personal idea of mine, that i submitted to warrel when none of my other ideas fit. warrel said it was perfect and THEN sent me the lyrics, which really freaked me out. it was DNB all over again...

a lot of times i will try to express the THEME of an album rather than a specific part.

T

 

[NastyJoan]

But with my perception of the cover
Did I get any closer to what you try to draw???
or mean??? or Imprint???

Sorry I'm Chilean and I don't know the word for what I want to express


In Spanish is "plasmar"

 

[FatherVic]

I guess there's not such a word but you could explain in....
transmitting the image in mind to the image on the screen

that's "plasmar"

 

[NastyJoan]

That's exactly what I was trying to write FatherVic I'm going to save that in My VbPAd thanks.

Waiting for your answer Mr. Smith

 

[Seems like Trav]

It could mean something like that.
it was a personal idea that i got when a few things in my life
started becoming...dark...for that time that was a self portrait.
faceless, feeling anonymous, empty, and bound to my surroundings.
seeing no light ahead....thats been chainging a little bit lately.
i reworked that idea for warrel in desperation of impending deadlines and it fit his lyrics perfectly.

so we used it
T

 

[FatherVic]

damn, you must see the light you offer with your covers!!! so look at terria....and feel the light!!!!!!

fathevic (never so grateful)

 

[NastyJoan]

Still don't get waht you meant in Blackwater Park, maybe it just doesn't have a meaning but still is too darker but I don't understand , perhaps the simplicity of the cover makes me get it wrong

 

[Seems like Trav]

"I am just a spectator. An advocate documenting the loss."

 

[SamRonin]

Good artists know how to comunicate the idea straight, but exceptionally talented artists know how to twist the idea and retell it, making the idea much richer.

Thats what Travis does IMHO.

Nice Condorito avatar, BTW.

 

[Don Corleone]

travis' covers are very fitting.

 

[Theli]

Dead heart in a dead world?

I think it looks more like he's reaching inside his chest expecting to find something that isn't there.
His humanity possibly.

I think the arwork fits very good with nevermore's desperate lyrics.

One thing I haven't figured out yet though is this image...
http://www.seempieces.com/gallery/nevermore/nevern.jpg

It kind of looks like a blurry body with an ownhead ontop. Moving in high speed.
Any ideas on this one?

 

[Seems like Trav]

yeah. its a dead owl.

 

[blakmetalemp]

Cant get too much more straight foward than that.

 

[Theli]

Originally posted by Seems like Trav
yeah. its a dead owl.

And another one, I was curious about. "Heartcollector"
http://www.seempieces.com/gallery/nevermore/neverm.jpg

Is this image based on photographs, or is it drawings?
What were the inspirations for this image (it's quite incomprehensible)?

 

[Seems like Trav]

heart collector is one i would like to do over...

 

[Theli]

Originally posted by Seems like Trav
heart collector is one i would like to do over...

Howcome?

 

[Seems like Trav]

because about a month after the cd came out, i realized exactly how it needs to be...

 

[NastyJoan]

Originally posted by Seems like Trav
because about a month after the cd came out, i realized exactly how it needs to be...

And How it Needs to be???????

Did you do it?