The use of the eye for the cd on the albums and the candle digipak

For my digipak, I have used an image of an eye for the cd on my albums digipak. This is there because I thought that it worked really well to have the pupil of the eye right in the centre on the cd. In addition to this, I wanted to play with the theme of religion shown in my digipak. I really liked the idea of death as it tied in nicely with the religious themes and the horror/thriller styled digipak I have created. The candle is supposed to represent the light, to light a souls way to heaven and the eyes illustrate the soul. It is often said that eyes are the window to the soul, the eye on the cd represents a soul. Souls are often referred to in religion and souls are supposed to travel to heaven or to hell after a person dies. The blown out candle represents to the loss of life and soul. The smoke leaving the candle illustrated the idea that the soul is leaving to body to find heaven. In addition to this candles are frequently used in religion which further relates to my theme of religion shown throughout my digipak with the stained glass church windows.

I wanted to pay with the idea of blood and innocence, the use of the pale skin and the eye in comparison to the front cover diversives the the theme of life and death. Life being shown by the eye and death by the blood on the hands.

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