The cover photograph as well as the photo inside the album was taken by Mark Kraus (my dad) who created these in college at Ohio University in the 80s as a photography Fine Arts major. I discovered them in the basement in recent years, tucked away in a box alongside other work I had never seen before. These images stayed in my mind these past few years and I felt that the way I connected to them related to some of the songs on this album: believing in something ‘beyond,’ going ‘beyond,’ and discovering/revealing and presenting/sharing that which may initially be hidden. A search, a longing, a finding. Balancing, suspending, and transcending, even if only in small moments and ways.

