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

Love Like Blood The Circle Cover Art

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

by PZ

🎥 Watch the video below. It was my first attempt to explore the concept behind the artwork. What follows is a more complete reflection.

Some time ago, I recorded the short video  above that began with a simple question: “What is an abyss?”

Today, I return to that question to share a more complete view of the images I created for our first limited edition vinyl, Love Like Blood / The Circle (300 hand-numbered copies).


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.

 


Love Like Blood / The Circle – Red vinyl – Limited Edition

📀 Love Like Blood / The Circle is available in a limited, numbered edition (300 copies).
A vinyl not only to listen to — but to hold, to look at, to feel.
A small fragment of a larger story.

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Between Two Sunsets – The Story Behind the Afterglow Cover

Between Two Sunsets – The Story Behind the Afterglow Cover

by PZ

Afterglow by Boxedge came to me like a quiet current — slow, electric, emotional.
Each track seemed to speak of something fading… or perhaps something that endured despite everything.
A sense of melancholy, yes, but also of suspended beauty.
Like that moment when the day surrenders to night, but leaves a trace of light that stays burned into your eyes.

Those sensations sparked the image.
Not a precise image — but a direction.
A need to visually express that emotional threshold where light meets shadow, hope meets illusion, and memory meets time.

That’s when I felt the urge to paint the cover.
And so I searched within myself for the places that held those emotions.

There was a subtle light that day in Brittany.
I stood on the tip of the pink granite coast of Ploumanac’h, among cliffs carved by time.
A fine breeze moved gently through the air, as if trying to suspend everything.
The sun was setting slowly over the ocean, igniting the sky in shades I had never seen before — copper, blood, molten gold.
And above, within the clouds, flickered flashes of blue flame — like lit shadows in the sky.

That sunset stayed with me.

Years later, in another time and another world, I looked out from the window of the Boxedge studio.
The Tuscan hills after the rain.
A suspended silence. A hint of mist.
Another sun fading slowly — but with the same intimate, mysterious intensity as back then.
That’s when I knew the cover had to be born between those two places.

I took up my digital tablet and began to paint.
But I didn’t want it to look digital.
I chose to simulate oil painting: thick pigments, broad brush strokes, like those left by a flat, oil-soaked brush.
I wanted the layering to show, the texture to remain visible, the marks of the hand to survive.
I wanted it to feel like a physical painting — alive.

At the heart of the composition, suspended between earth and sky, there’s a line of light.
It’s not just the reflection of a sunset.
It’s a boundary — or perhaps a passage.
A place where light meets darkness — just like in the music of Boxedge.

To me, Afterglow by Boxedge conveyed these sensations: residual hopes and fading illusions,
hidden tears and enduring memory, stories that dissolve and others that return, always balanced between the shadow and the blaze.

The result is Afterglow.
A landscape that doesn’t exist — and yet feels real.
A horizon that unites two memories, two silences, two sunsets.

Afterglow. (Album) 2025

Afterglow (Signed & Numbered Vinyl)

Afterglow (Core Vinyl Edition)

Afterglow (Core CD Edition)

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