Storm Thorgerson’s image for the cover of Phish’s 1997 album 'Slip Stitch and Pass’ is one of a series of twenty prints, each in an edition of twenty known as the 2020 Series. Storm describes for us how this image came about . . .

"The most impressive thing about Phish was going to see them live and discovering first hand that they did not have a set list, no set list! horrors, how do they know what to play! The second impressive thing about Phish is the degree of improvisation in their concerts and improvisation is what I was trying to represent in this design.

"I thought of improvisation as a large ball of string and the improvisation as the unraveling, wherein each musician took the melody, ran with it and passed it on to the next musician...A little fanciful you might say, but not quite as fanciful as trying to construct a giant ball of string - giant, because after all how long is an improvisation until finished, how long is a piece of string? The most fanciful part of all of this is that a giant ball would require giant string, namely rope, the kind of rope that ties a ship to a dock, which made the ball very heavy and a complete nightmare to transport and carry down rocks and onto a beach, it seeming relevant to put Phish near the sea."