"This record began for me while I was standing in front of a painting in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC titled "The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden." In it, Adam and Eve looked full of shame as they were banished from the beautiful garden into the dark unknown of the right hand corner of the canvas. This didn't seem right to me. I felt that in darkness is the beginning of life as I know it.
The bittersweet pomegranate here is a metaphor for the gift of sensuality, bliss, pain, exploration of self, strife and mortality - all of which give this life a poignancy, dimension and depth that I don't feel from any notion of Eden.
Love your life - hands on handle it. Grow callouses from its touch, so you can handle it more fully. It will love you for your touch, and grow to know you by your rough hands - and will lay out for you like a lover whom it knows will peruse its every curve and crevice - You - whom it knows won't waste some moment of perfect creation. - Frank Orrall, leader singer/songwriter of the band, "Poi Dog Pondering."