Phebe Starr: The fun part for me is I'm a very visual person and I wanted to, have the visual side of the album be represented. And I was so lucky to get to make the album art with one of my favorite artists, who I've been looking at for years as inspiration. Her name's Penny Slinger. And she's this amazing surrealist artist, originally from London, but has lived all over the world and done some amazing work, which, I think I was in high school and I saw a picture of her stuff in a book, and I was like, wow. And years later, somehow we crossed paths in LA and, yeah, been a huge fan of hers, and she was listening to this album and I was telling her about it, and she, she immediately got the concept and, and wanted to collaborate with me on doing the artwork. So we shot in her studio, and she buried me in dirt.
Phebe Starr: And, she saw the vision of it is, is like, she was like, I see all of these things from the past informing the future and how we carry on those things from the past as trinkets, like an archaeological dig that help us navigate who we are for the future. And I think right now in the world where everything is going so fast, it's so important to understand where we've come from and to take those. those things, those grounding things into the future. And for me, I'm like a lover of trinkets and things that last forever. I collect a lot of, vintage badges and brooches and things from all over the world. And so I brought those and got one of my friends who's a jewelry maker to make a knife, and she buried me in all these jewels and, and took an amazing photo. And the whole process with her was again, just such a beautiful experience and having her input into the art and what it meant.
Phebe Starr - Dirt
