This is the album artwork for Coheed and Cambria's first full-length album, which was first released in 2002. This art might not have a lot to do with worldly events at the time, but it is definitely easier for me to understand. The dragonfly is actually a key part of the story behind Coheed and Cambria's five album concept series. Supposedly, they carry some sort of mutational virus.While it would be impossible to know this without knowing the story, which only a bunch of obsessed Coheed fans know, the tale does make some interesting allusions to past history. The conflict is caused by a supreme Tri-Mage who destroyed the other 11, which may or may not be an arbitrary number, mages. He then used control of the media to gain the praise of the citizens of the whole galaxy because he ended the Mage Wars, which he had also started. This point in the story immediately reminded me of the way that Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators use the media to gain power.
Another reason I chose this art piece is because album art seems to be the most common form of artwork anymore. I realize it might not be quite as "artistic" as some of the abstract stuff that ruled the 20th century, but times are still changing. Art comes in all sorts of forms. For example, graffiti is now considered to be a form of artistic expression.
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