The Artwork

In early 1995, as the album began to take shape, The Tea Party met with their manager Michel White, EMI’s in-house art director Patrick Duffy, and marketing manager David McMillan to develop ideas for the artwork.

Being avid fans of Joy Division, the band sought to create a cover that would pay homage to the album ‘Closer’.

Photographer Rob Weyman captured black and white photos of the band in Jeff Martin’s apartment on St. Paul Street in Old Montreal, which were later used for the booklet. However, wanting to avoid featuring themselves on the cover, the band continued their search for a suitable motif. Stuart Chatwood eventually discovered what they were looking for while browsing through a book: a photograph of an earthquake-damaged statue. 

The sculpture, known as the “Angel of Grief,” was created in 1894 by William Wetmore Story as a memorial for his deceased wife. While the original statue resides in a Roman cemetery, it has been replicated numerous times and can now be found worldwide.

 The cover of “The Edges of Twilight” features a photograph of one such replica, located in Palo Alto, California. This particular copy was created in 1901 to honor Henry Lathrop, brother of Stanford University co-founder Jane Stanford. The photograph captures the statue after it was severely damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, showing its fallen canopy.

Not only has the statue itself been copied again and again, the motif has also been used by many other bands, including Lenny Kravitz, Evanescense, Nightwish and