About the cover of the vinyl “Love Like Blood / The Circle”

Front – Rose in the Abyss

The front cover is titled “Rose in the Abyss”.
At the center, I painted an upside-down rose — suspended above a compact black circle that seems to absorb everything.
The circle is surrounded by vivid, dense red brushstrokes in circular motion:
Blood, fire, passion… or perhaps destruction.

Amid this swirling magma and black void, something still resists.
The rose — fragile and defiant — refuses to vanish.
It isn’t swallowed by the abyss, nor does it burn in the vortex.

This image was born from listening to the two tracks by Boxedge, “Love Like Blood” and “The Circle”.
Emotions, pulses, and desires moved within me and led to this visual expression.

Back – Rebirth

The back cover has a different title: “Rebirth”.
Where once there was the abyss, now there is only a vast red current.
A flowing energy.

Two slender figures face each other — distant, yet connected.
A perfect red circle cuts through them both, linking them, though they remain apart.
It feels like a silent current between two extremes.

The red background remains, but its structure changes: the brushstroke is no longer circular, as in Rose in the Abyss, but horizontal — like the steady movement of a river.
It flows, evolves, carries.

In contrast, the two long, black silhouettes — a recurring element in many of my works — detach themselves from that fluid.
They do not merge with it. They remain in tension, recognizable yet only faintly outlined.
Presences that sense each other, perhaps reach out — but never touch.

Rebirth is about tension and possibility.
It speaks of the will to emerge from the undifferentiated flow of life, from its endless cycle.
A quiet battle to be reborn and become truly oneself.

In a reality that tends to homogenize and blur all things, these two figures remain slender, fragile — but distinct.
This isn’t an answer, but a threshold. A movement toward something new.