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Ocean Depths, Arid Desert
Next year is the 30th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album, a trigger for the early 1990s grunge movement and enabler of teenage angst.
The album cover is also one of rock music's most recognisable, setting the tone for the sentiments reflected within.
We're constantly inundated with stories of the realities people face thousand of miles away from our doorsteps. What would this album look like if it were released in a vastly more polarised world? How would Kurt Cobain's words resonate?
One of the most haunting images in recent history is that of Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body surfaced on the Turkish shore moments after his family tried to flee in an inflatable boat to Greece.
Americans don't need to look further than their own border to see similar desperation. But by transporting Alan footsteps before a proposed border wall, we're forced to consider migration's universality.
In a B-side version, Spencer Elden, the infant featured on the original "Nevermind," is faced with a child's reality a world away.
Instead of being lured by a dollar bill, like he was on the original cover, he is despondently seeking to be rescued from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.
