I believe all art — regard­less of its form — is like a jour­ney; no mat­ter how far you go, no mat­ter where you are going, the jour­ney is what mat­ters, the des­ti­na­tion is the prod­uct of a pleas­ant, unpleas­ant, road-bumps, even der­outes and other chal­leng­ing feats.

All art, regard­less of its medium, speaks the same lan­guage; it’s that form­less, empty space between its cre­ator and us that bounds us together — any­thing that gets in the way will only cor­rupt that potential.

Peter Gabriel:

When I put out records with­out titles it was because I tended to remem­ber my own records by the art­work. I used to love gate­fold sleeves …when you would sit at home with a new record and open it up it was just a pre­cious moment. Now we’ve gone into this dig­i­tal world a lot of that has been lost.

I have been a music fan even before I was born (we would never sleep until mother played some tunes from the tape player — I’m an iden­ti­cal twin)… there’s always been some­thing mag­i­cal about PG’s music where all the sound com­ing from each song is a nar­ra­tive to his soul, just like each song would fit together to cre­ate a unique expe­ri­ence to each album from the first to the last song in each par­tic­u­lar record. Perhaps the most mag­i­cal of all, is its often name­less, über-minimalist, album-art that, he & his artists have crafted for us.

Real World Galleries dis­plays all of his album arts to date, includ­ing some behind-the-scenes from both PG & the artist on the process of cre­at­ing the art­work. The one show­cased above, is one of my favorite — OVO.

(via graphic-exchange.com)