Elastic Flame | Album Art

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Recruited by Zo Fan, the video director of this project, I was the last one to get on this amazing journey to witness the birth of this album. Being a graphic artist with a limited jazz background, I quickly fell into the world built by Elastic Tribe.

After listening to the demo, I got really excited. The music so rich and colorful like a kaleidoscope. It changes fast yet smoothly, like a kaleidoscope, taking me to an expected places with each musical sentences. This album is a wonderful thought-leading pieces full of rapid emotional transitions.

The motif I chose for the cover is “hands”.

First, I want to honor the hands of the artists. Each finger is like an Olympic athlete, but they are not challenged for gold medal; they are challenged by their own minds and hearts. Second meaning for the hands is the ability to manifest feelings and demonstrate skill. Combining with the smoke and flame, the images wants to shows how the artists playing around something wild and intangible. So I added in a lot of movement and flow in the sketches. When the hands massage the smoke is like they are stretching and sculpting time, and thus music is created. And the fluid smoke and flame are like their spirits, radiant and flying elegantly. Their shapes ever-changing and free.

I felt really fortunate to be working with Elastic Tribe, Zo Fan and Fondeur DeSon. We shared a rare opportunity to turn the music into a tangible form in the time of pandemic. This album will forever take a special place in my heart.