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Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Release: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Label: Warner/WEA
Designer: Gus Van Sant
Release Date: September 24, 1991

I remember that maybe a year after this was released, we were learning about tessellations in geometry. Then I saw this album cover when I was picking up Ride the Lightning at Strawberry’s the next town over (don’t ask how I remember this). It’s not a true tessellation, but it almost acts like one. The white space acts like its own shape, especially when you have the freakshow tribal pattern tongues acting as makeshift borders.

I also remember Flea’s stuffed animal pants.