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in february of 2025 the album came out. the artwork is caspar's attempt to talk visually about what the record is like to listen to, both musically and lyrically. the cover image is a science-fiction-tinged salvador dali, takashi murakami, wassily kandinsky and max ernst-esque digital painting, and was made with particular reference to the songs "you are not alone" and "say hi to venus". it was created for the most-part by trying to break adobe illustrator's "revolve" tool, followed by a bunch of drawing, painting, printing and scanning,

his family, consisting of his mother and his deaf sister, are very close and supportive of maito's many successes as a dancer. in turn whilst maito is struggling with balancing his dancing career with his schooling, he is also attentive to his mother and sister's needs. it's a beautiful portrait of tokyo family life, and a wonderful record of a modern, street dancer in his prime. not least because of how the family all use sign-language to communicate with each other—for his sister's sake—and how beautifully this echoes maito's use of dance to do the same with others.

the film is called pasta negra. it tells the story of a family—a grandmother, a mother with child and her sister—trying to cross the border into colombia. the photography in the film is such a thing to behold that only upon a second viewing were we able to pay attention to the story.

we presented a range of ideas to jorge, and ended up making two posters for the film. the first poster you can see here, which caspar made in the berlin studio with a wig, masking tape, a printer, paper, a knife and a camera.

the film was accepted into the sundance film festival whilst we were working on the poster. if you have the means we can't recommend seeing this film enough.