The Mars Volta by Storm Thorgerson

The Mars Volta rejected this cover design. We fell out with them big time or rather they fell out with us over this cover but we never knew why. They asked for about 8 ideas to be taken to completion instead of the usual 1 or 2 then rejected them all, the bastardos The idea for this cover came from the title, Amputecture, as in architecture and 'ampu'as in part of the body (amputation). So the image is of a person whose body architecture is being painted on by themselves -  a surreal and contrary task, maybe impossible. Thought it right up the street of The Mars Volta but couldn’t have been more wrong. One of us lost the plot.