The cover art is a sketch done by Brendan Perry and represents the themes of the song "The Arcane" as per the initial EP.

As Perry explains: The naked blindfolded figure, representing primal man deprived of perception, stands, within the confines of a garden (the world) containing a fountain and trees laden with fruit.

His right arm stretches out – the grasping for knowledge – towards a fruit bearing tree, its trunk encircled by a snake.

It is a Blakean universe in which mankind can only redeem itself, can only rid itself of blindness, through the correct interpretation of signs and events that permeate the fabric of nature's laws.

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