While catching up with the rest of the project, I was also waiting for Tian to finish the album artwork. I had a bit of anxiety around the deadline since I didn’t want to submit anything incomplete or imperfect. The visuals were such an important part of tying the project together. I wanted the cover to reflect the concept clearly as a remix album grounded in cultural identity, food, and nostalgia.
About a week later than expected, Tian sent over the final illustration, and it was perfect. The final revision captured exactly what I’d imagined traditional cooking imagery reimagined through a musical lens, with earthy tones and textures that mirrored the tracks I’d spent months crafting. Seeing the final piece made the project feel especially real.
I started embedding the cover as the main image for each remix on my iTunes, as I plan to upload these tracks to SoundCloud sometime in the future. Even though everything was running a little behind, I was glad I waited. The delay ended up being worth it, the visual aspect brought a cohesion and identity that pulled the whole concept together, as I have said before.
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