Scratchy

Inside the image.

A square cover is filled by a roughly painted, saturated red-orange ground, with a narrow dark blue and black strip along the top edge and a thin, uneven violet area visible at the left. The surface looks assembled from torn or cut pieces of paper: edges are ragged, layers overlap, and the lettering sits on pale strips that are marked and mottled. Small scraps and streaks of green, yellow, white and dark colour interrupt the red field, especially around the central lettering and near the lower edge.

The main feature is a broad horizontal strip across the middle, occupying most of the cover’s width. On its pale grey-white backing, the large word “SCRATCHY” is printed in dark, uneven capitals. Each letter is enclosed by a tall, narrow oval, and the ovals overlap or crowd one another, making the word look like a row of linked loops. The letters are irregular in scale and spacing; the final Y sits within a wider oval near the right edge. Behind and around this strip, scraps of pale green and yellow paper form a broken, scalloped border. The strip itself has torn, ragged edges and is interrupted by red and dark marks.

Near the top, a narrower, slightly slanted pale strip carries the lowercase word “unweledig” in large grey-green letters; the spelling is as visible, though the final letters sit close to a torn edge. A thin dark line and a short bright blue band run above it. The upper-right area is mostly uninterrupted red-orange, leaving open space beside the top lettering.

At the bottom right, three short lines of smaller type sit on pale, roughly cut strips. The first appears to read “(ZION TRAIN”, the second “Re-Mixes)”, and the third “21 26 28 30 33”. Small green, white, red and dark marks overlap parts of these lines, and the bottom strip is cropped by the edge of the image. The treatment is graphic rather than photographic, with hand-cut-looking paper shapes, rough edges, uneven ink-like lettering and visible patchwork. The colours are flat and strongly contrasting, without a depicted scene or clear sense of depth.