This limited edition silkscreen print features the album artwork from Catherine Wheel’s 1995 single, Judy Staring at the Sun. Storm described to Hypergallery the origins of the lyrics and how he interpreted this visually:

“Judy Staring at the Sun is the full title. The song concerned a friend of theirs who was unfortunately a heroin addict and became removed and slowly more distant. In the lyrics it was noted particularly that she didn’t blink whilst looking at the sun. I was trying to represent the icy world of detachment.

“Our Judy is surrounded incongruously by ice, she can therefore witness the outside world but is removed and protected from it. She is naked to represent both her vulnerability and her uncaring attitude. She doesn’t mind how she appears to others, shielded as she thinks, by her invisible cloak of heroin.”

A weighty Somerset paper has been used for this edition, printed in archival inks by the renowned Coriander Studios in London.

Signed by: Storm Thorgerson

Image size: 19 x 19 inches / Paper size: 28 x 33 inches 

Edition size: 125

Print type: Silkscreen

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