JAKARTA - This year, the classic album Linkin Park - Meteora - is 20 decades old. After the band released the never-published song Lost, we decided to invite readers to recall the mysterious person in the album cover artwok.
Who is the cover model for the Meteora album? The clue, he is not a member of the band Linkin Park, like vocalist Mike Shinoda or guitarist Brad Delson.
In fact, the person on the cover of Meteora - squatting, wearing a respirator, spraying paint on hand - is Dutch artist Boris Tellegen, also known as his graffiti tag, Delta.
Tellegen helped Linkin Park in 2003 with artwork for Meteora. But what was first envisioned as the last album cover - a giant communal mural painted by his team - was replaced by a single shot of Tellegen who was working on the artwork.
"We selected a picture of Boris for the album cover because of his calm power," Shinoda explained in The Art of Meteora, a short documentary that accompanies the album Meteora.
The mural was even captured in photos along the records of the Meteor liner. Tellegen, which first appeared in the world of graffiti in the 80s, continues to work today.
Visit bolistellegen.com to see the artists' works.
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