Meet Me at the Gloaming comes out on Friday, so I thought I’d share some BTS from the shoot I did with @seanniebryan for the album cover. My favorite thing about shooting these past two album covers (which I’ll admit, I find more stressful than fun until it’s done) is the surprise of what it turns out to be, given all the precision of intention going into it. I had a pretty clear picture in my head of what I wanted this one to look like, but then the reality of circumstance made that impossible. The cabin we ended up renting for a night had the wrong colored carpet and the bedroom was too small to get the angle for the photo I’d envisioned, of which I planned to be just one small part. In those moments, faced with all that’s wrong, it can be hard for me to see the possibilities or to trust the process. If you had told me a year ago that this album cover would feature me and the back of my bare ass thigh front and center, filling up the frame, I would have told you to fuck right off. I’m constantly torn between loving and loathing my body — both as it is, and as I feel the world has required it to be. At the same time, it felt important to me to be somehow “stripped” in this cover. This record feels very raw and close to the home of me, and I wanted the cover to reflect that. I had the idea for the singlet and briefs early on, but @alexanikol pointed out that that idea was a little played. She suggested I dye them. So I made two versions ~ blue like the gloaming (another word for twilight) and a beige that was close to the color of my skin. Seannie and I were trying to do a lot in very little time, so I had to decide quickly what I would wear in that first set up we did. I chose the blue. I sat, I posed. I tried to create the image in my head even though the circumstances had changed. But in the end, the one we went with was one of me repositioning myself. Moving from one moment to the next. An in-between. I’m so grateful to Seannie for being game for the rush of it all and for seeing the possibilities 💙 Working with her always reminds me I can trust the process to deliver more than I’m capable of imagining with my wee little brain.