"Be Much Use Being Anything Else"

This conceptual album design challenges its title—Be Much Use Being Anything Else—and reframes it through a visual narrative of beauty, survival, and constraint.

The visuals center on two unexpectedly paralleled creatures: the golden child reticulated python and the blue morpho butterfly. Both share iridescent blue coloration produced by microscopic scale structures, and even similarities in diet—blood just as viable a nutrient source for butterflies as snakes despite not making up a bulk of their average diet.

On the cover, a vibrant python slips free from a chrysalis, draped inside a fogged glass enclosure and challenging the viewer to consider the cost of transformation within imposed boundaries.

Inside, the snake—now fully emerged—drapes through a lush terrarium under artificial lights, surrounded by blue morpho specimens pinned to the dark wall behind it. A human caretaker leans just out of frame, representing the controlling structures of societal perception and care of a world that can’t ever seem to really speak the same language and is even wary of getting too close.

Framed as a metaphor for the neurodivergent experience, the work speaks to the constraints of early masking, the beauty of complexity misread as excess, and the systemic failure to equip “captive-raised” individuals for independent life.

The project uses photo-bashing, illustrated effects, and narrative symbolism to create an emotionally charged visual story that’s as haunting as it is resonant.