VISUAL NOTES ON Eilydd Na Ddefnyddiwyd / Sub Not Used Published by dbcovers Source: https://dbcovers.com/artwork/sain-eilydd-na-ddefnyddiwyd-sub-not-used-43365858/ Text licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ VISUAL DESCRIPTION A square record sleeve combines a narrow white text band at the top and bottom with a dark, grainy colour photograph between them. The photograph is a tightly cropped group portrait of three people leaning close together. At left, a face is partly cut off by the frame; the person wears dark glasses and a thick, mottled brown garment or fur-like collar. In the centre, a dark-haired figure in dark glasses bends forward, their face largely in shadow. At right, a third figure is turned down and inward, with a bright yellow-white area of clothing or a light-coloured garment catching the light. The figures overlap and fill nearly all the photographic area, leaving a deep black background behind their heads and shoulders. The image is dominated by black, olive green, and muddy brown, sharply interrupted by yellow and cream highlights on the faces and clothing. The lighting is uneven and high-contrast: some features emerge in luminous yellow-green patches while much of the central figure and background sinks into shadow. The photograph has a soft, coarse appearance, with the outlines and details blurred in places. A thin dark rule separates the photograph from the white bands. In the top band, bold black lettering is centred across two lines: “JARMAN/CYNGANEDDWYR” above “SUB NOT USED”. A small black-and-white emblem or mark sits at the far left, while “RECORDIAU” and “SAIN” appear at the far right. The lower band has “RECORDIAU” above “SAIN” at left, a large centred two-line inscription reading “EILYDD NA DDEFNYDDIWYD” and “POETS/JARMAN”, and a small green square image at the far right with “BAND” above it. The typography is condensed, heavy uppercase sans serif, contrasting with the blurred, crowded photograph. ASSOCIATIONS AND AESTHETIC IMPRESSIONS The sleeve feels like a fragment of a larger, noisier scene caught at close range. The faces press together so tightly that the photograph becomes less a conventional group portrait than a knot of profiles, lenses, hair, and shoulders, with no clear space in which to settle the eye. The uneven yellow-green light makes the moment feel unstable: it could be a flash in a dark room, a glimpse through tinted glass, or simply a photograph whose shadows have swallowed much of its detail. That darkness sits in productive tension with the crisp white bands and blunt, orderly lettering. The text feels like a label or caption firmly attached to an image that remains elusive and partly obscured. The composition has an archival, documentary quality, while the lurid highlights and close crop lend it an almost nocturnal, cinematic unease. The figures seem gathered together, yet their lowered faces and obscured expressions make the group difficult to read as either intimate or estranged. It holds both possibilities at once: a shared moment, and a scene glimpsed from outside. READABLE LETTERING JARMAN/CYNGANEDDWYR — Top centre, first line SUB NOT USED — Top centre, second line RECORDIAU — Top right SAIN — Top right, below “RECORDIAU” EILYDD NA DDEFNYDDIWYD — Bottom centre, first line POETS/JARMAN — Bottom centre, second line RECORDIAU — Bottom left SAIN — Bottom left, below “RECORDIAU” BAND — Bottom right, above the green square WELSH BAND — Upper left, printed vertically beside the small emblem OBSERVATION NOTES - The small upper-left emblem and the green square at lower right are too small to identify confidently. - The figures' facial details and the exact material of the left figure's garment are obscured by shadow and image softness. REUSE AND ATTRIBUTION Visual notes on Eilydd Na Ddefnyddiwyd / Sub Not Used — dbcovers. Source: https://dbcovers.com/artwork/sain-eilydd-na-ddefnyddiwyd-sub-not-used-43365858/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Indicate any changes. Suggested HTML attribution:

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