![]() ![]() I’m delighted that these images, finally, with Bob’s consent, can now act as innocent, but implacable sentinels for the music of Swans, after all these years. ![]() Biggs said no, but, explains Gira: “those images have remained in the back of my head since then, always nagging. I do not own the rights to this album, but everyone should have the right to listen to it union brothers unite I do not own the rights to this album, but everyone should have the right to listen. Or like one of Jasper Johns’ flag paintings – I just can’t figure them out, and I’m not supposed to do so, but they keep calling me back.” Originally he asked Biggs if he could use the artwork back in 1981. It’s an utterly banal image, isn’t it? But the thing is, it stuck with me, all these years… I look at Bob’s baby images as something like the Mona Lisa – utterly inscrutable, but ACHING to reach up to the surface. It was a pastel of one of the baby images we now have decided to use as the art for the new Swans album. Gira), were first seen by Gira at a friend’s house, “I noticed an unfathomable image on the wall. The images for ‘To Be Kind’, supplied by artist and founder of Slash magazine / records Bob Biggs (with package design by M. ![]()
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