Building from the themes of the song which revolve around the problems with media and politics I started by manipulating images in a dark and experimental way.
Taking a political speech by Nick Clegg and converting it to a .RAW file and opening in Photoshop resulted in a page of white noise that looked loosely like a pool/ sea filling up with water from the rain.
Adding a drowning man's hand gives a loose message of being surrounded by media and losing sight of what's important.
To give the image more attack and a bit more of a retro/ vintage feel to compliment the legacy of Black Sabbath I photographed my hand and made it black and bright red.
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Taking the title of the song relatively literally I based this idea on a ring's motion as it falls to the ground. Using the extrude and bevel tool I manipulated an illustration of a ring to look as though it was rotating in various directions.
The shading looked cheap and too digital so I flattened the graphics.
To make the artwork less obvious and more interpretative I changed it to a less obvious wedding ring
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