The Empyrean, Sarah Sitkin

The Empyrean Album cover, Sarah Sitkin 

'The Empyrean’ is the name of this album, it is a term for ‘the highest point in heaven’ and this album cover's art is a depiction of this, the layout of this image is used to show a contrast between physical and spiritual. The collage of images and paint make an interesting image which plays with the depth of the image. The image is divided horizontally roughly into three parts. The top third represents the empyrean, and the bottom third represents the earth and mortality, this is inferred by the resting body in the dirt. The middle third depicts a space of transition, firstly with the stairs reaching up into the clouds. Also the paint seeping down from the upper third. The image shows many polar extremes; dark and light, height and depth, as well as a mixture of two-dimensional and three-dimensional layers.