leg-grake:

slorestgreen:

So I found out something today that blew my mind. These pictures are from two Yes album covers, Fragile and Yessongs. I was reading through Roger Dean's Views when I made a really awesome discovery (for me at least): these pictures are actually telling a story in chronological order. The first two show the front and back of Fragile, where a planet breaks apart over time. From the book:

“The planet disintegrates but the inhabitants have built a spaceship which on the Yessongs cover is shown guiding fragments of the planet as spores through space. The second picture on the Yessongs cover shows these spores impregnating a new planet, introducing life. In the fourth picture the cities evolve.”

As you may know, I am a giant fan of Roger Dean’s work, and it’s really cool to understand his paintings at a deeper level.

@hokinkomindcrime sorry to keep tagging you in things, but you know how in Olias Of Sunhillow, Jon Anderson gives credit to Roger Dean for ‘planting the seed’? I’m pretty sure this is that seed!

#fuck that's neat