Posterchild’s Maple Faerie
When I first started investigating options for album art, I contacted one of my favourite Toronto “street artists” (I put this in quotations because the term “street artist” is ambiguous, sometimes pretentious, and oft misused), Posterchild. We exchanged emails back and forth for a while; the many delays the album process underwent and the business of both our lives made communication a bit slow. Much has changed since then: at the time, I was playing with the idea of calling the album In Flight, but it is now entitled Sticker Collection and the album art has gone in a very different direction.
However, Posterchild did a piece/installation inspired by what I sent him anyhow. I was, and continue to be, thrilled and also quite moved that my music was the inspiration for such beauty. I ended up incorporating what he did into the album art (which is a digital collage and is also very exciting!).
Collaboration between artists of different inclinations and disciplines is important, I believe, not just for the creations that result but also for dialogue, experimentation, and furthering our own artistic pursuits. It touches me deeply when I am able to be a part of this sort of collaboration.
Plus it’s pretty freaking cool.
