"The Transient Effects of Light on Water"
The third barrel project installment. The name is taken from the American metalcore band Converge’s third album. At the time I had been going down a rabbit hole on the perceived immortality of trees. Trees do not succumb to old age but die due to disease and other outside influences. I was drawn to the idea of the tree being the “forever” in the name and felt it apt to involve this because of the beer being partially aged in wooden barrels. The beer, being brewed with spruce tips, led the way. To incorporate a wood grain and the sense of age I acquired spruce cookies [a thin cut cross section of a tree] to make tree ring prints with. I layered a few of the scanned in prints over each other to add a little depth and then hand drew the font to feel like the one used for the bands name on the original album cover. I colorized the label and stylized the background as a throwback to an alternate art cover of the album released in a vinyl box set later in the bands career featuring the work of Aaron Turner.
