Custom Designed CD Cover Recording Artist Robert Taylor Sun In a Box

SUN IN A BOX
CD Cover for Recording Artist
ROBERT TAYLOR

I wanted to share with all of you a painting I created for the recording artist, Robert Taylor.
The painting is for his CD cover on his latest release "Sun In a Box".

It's an absolutely beautiful song with so much depth and meaning, I was very inspired to
create the painting. I listened to the song over and over again, and played it continuously
as I painted.

FINISHED ALBUM COVER

My thoughts as I created the painting:

I played the song as I was painting, and the words “sun in a box” had such

a visual image and meaning to me I needed to express it in the most visual way I

could and still maintain an aura of mystique. I feel as though the box is

a portal into a world where we can be free to express ourselves in our own

special way, "A window into our soul".

The verse “a dream in the air” was another part of the song that drew

me in and kept coming back to me. As I painted the branches they naturally

flowed, floating through the air, reaching towards something we can’t see, a

dream that’s just out of reach.

The birds are an element that is very much present in many of my

paintings, particularly my Signature Style. So when I heard the

lyrics: “With my wings tied to my own hands” I knew I had to place some of

my “birds” into the painting, as a representation of my art and at the same time

the freedom to be released from the ties that bind us and soar above that which

holds us back.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Sun in a Box

I stand taller when I can barely stand at all
I just take my pride and fold it then fold it again
Till it’s smaller than small
Take it easy, it’s not like I’m blaming this on anybody else
I can lie and say I’m holding it together but sometimes I scare myself

I’m a sun in a box
A dream in the air
A king buried in gold
A cry in the middle of nowhere
A sun in a box and time is sinking in sand
With my wings tied to my own hands
And I’m so lost
I’m a sun in a box

If a dream crashed down but nobody heard it fall
Did it exist at all or did brick after brick after brick
Finally build me a wall
Take your turn, come on stand up and judge me I will ware a suit and tie
You will see that I’m just like everybody
Cool on the outside shaking
on the inside

I’m a sun in a box
A dream in the air
A king buried in gold
A cry in the middle of nowhere
A sun in a box and time is
sinking in sand
With my wings tied to my own hands
And I’m so lost
I’m a sun in a box

And I want to see the clouds way down below

To see the green and blue and gold
Of the forest in the trees, the seven seas
And the color of a happy soul
If I could taste that air, a mighty
stubborn breath I’d hold
And If I faded fast or slow
I would never go

Back to a sun in a box
A dream in the air
A king buried in gold
A cry in the middle of nowhere
A sun in a box and time is sinking in sand
With my wings tied to my own hands
Find me I’m lost

I’m a sun in a box

If you would like to learn more about Rob and his music please visit his Website.

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