Graphic designer Brian Roettinger has created psychedelic visuals for Kesha's album High Road, featuring an album cover depicting a candle made from a 3D scan of the pop star.
Roettinger, who has worked with artists including Jay Z, Childish Gambino and Florence and the Machine, is in an ongoing collaboration with Kesha as art director of her High Road album and tour.
The album art is a photograph taken of a life-like Kesha candle with drips of melting wax.

"We 3D scanned her and then from there, we created a mould and made candles of her head," Roettinger told Dezeen. "That became the iconography for the album. It's a picture of her but it's not really a photo of her. It's like a version of her."
The melting effect, Roettinger explained, is meant to represent how "nothing is permanent". "When you think of a bust in a museum or gallery, it feels like it's a thing that represents permanence, like this an everlasting objects," he said. "By making this object into a candle it contrasts that."

 

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