Virtual Lifers

A silkscreen print on a weighty Somerset paper, this limited edition album cover art print gives us a really powerful image of Silent Buddhas as imagined by Storm Thorgerson.

Storm describes the concept for this album cover art as a cross between the Victorian notion of the Homunculus – the interior voice of conscience characterised as another entity inside ourselves – and Borges’ writing about the dreamer.

“Does the dreamer dream dreams or do the dreams dream the dreamer? Is the little man in the little bed dreaming about the big man in the big bed or vice versa?

“The idea of the voice in the head, of there being possibly another person inside oneself is commonplace. For schizophrenics and religious zealots, and the odd rock’n’roll star, the voice within is so powerful it can overtake, whereas for the majority, hopefully, this voice is a comfort, an ally, keeps good company and may even keep some of us on the straight and narrow.” Storm Thorgerson

Each print has been signed and numbered in pencil by Storm.