Con Spirito

Inside the image.

A square cover combines aged-looking sheet music with a dark, roughly painted group of people along the bottom. The upper portion is a pale yellow-beige field crossed by horizontal musical staves, notes and small printed markings. The paper-like ground is unevenly coloured, with faded areas, faint stains and washes of blue, red and pink. A ragged, torn-looking boundary runs across the image just above the figures, separating the music from the darker lower scene.

The largest graphic element is a broad, semi-transparent grey musical-looking form at the centre: its curling strokes overlap the notation and extend from near the top edge down towards the middle. A vivid magenta symbol sits to its right, with a long upright stroke and a heavy horizontal base. Two small magenta dots punctuate the music to the left of centre; further blurred pink and blue marks appear among the staves.

The bottom third is crowded with dark, loosely rendered figures, mostly seen from behind or in profile. Several heads and shoulders overlap, including a tall central figure whose head rises into the sheet music, smaller figures clustered to the left, and a line of figures extending to the right. Their forms are built from black, olive and muted ochre strokes, with pale greenish highlights against a textured, shadowy ground. The people meet the lower and side edges of the cover, with no separate border.

Across the upper left, the title “Con Spirito” appears in large, thin, white serif lettering. It sits over the staves and partly crosses the grey central form. Small black musical notation and words remain visible behind the larger graphics, though much of this printing is too small to read. Near the bottom, a narrow line of white lettering gives a Welsh and English credit; beneath it, “Eilir Owen Griffiths” appears in larger white serif capitals and lowercase. The overall image has a layered, distressed appearance, combining printed notation, large flat graphic marks and painterly figures.