Warm Fire Lightning
Satellite Mode
Prompt: Create original album art for release of a single
The song “Warm Fire Lightning” centers around a secret (but maybe not-so-secret) crush on someone who interacts under an icy veneer. I wanted to take that idea, along with the fruit-themed branding that the band had established, and make it literal. I froze a huge pineapple in my freezer (FYI, in order to make the water perfectly clear, you need to boil it first), and set up a makeshift photo studio in my 300 sq. ft. apartment. At first, the idea was to show a woman’s hands attempting to melt the ice around the pineapple with a measly lighter, to drive home the “unrequited-but-sort-of-requited lust” idea of the song. We did take some photos that way, but ultimately it was a melty mess, and I decided to just let the frozen pineapple be star of the show.