These are the portraits of OLP that Grant Smith painted, and were supposed to be in HIPT's liner notes but were cut. He's the guy who did the album cover.
An explanation from the site:
Our Lady Peace asked me to do paintings of each band member. I wanted them to be inward, reflective, powerful and multilayered. The individual shapes on their faces represent the depth of the man. Raine asked me to paint a bandaged head representing the wounds that were accumulated in spending 3 years, recording over 50 tracks, and almost breaking up had on the band.
Oh, and just as an added bonus, I found this elsewhere on his website:
Grant (right) with Our Lady Peace band members
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i wouldn't BUY them...because yes it would be frightening to have huge versions of those paintings staring down at me from my wall...and plus i would imagine they'd be pretty expensive. but if all four of them came resized and put on a small poster, sure why not.
I think cutting them from the liner notes was a good decision - artsy portraits of the band members in the liner notes seems a wee bit pretentious to me, espcially raine with the bandage (not to say that the guy who painted them doesn't have talent, they're not my cup of tea, but they have artistic merit).
see, I was thinking he looked like a tennis player with the headband and the blue and red collered shirt...
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