
I've seen this album cover before and it has to be one of my favorite, but now it is definitely my favorite after reading this interview with the artist:
The interesting thing about that cover is, ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses. That’s actually his body and for his hands, we ordered a bear hand from a movie shop down in Hollywood. So the hand is actually a real bear hand. So he’s got the glove on and he’s got his Versace robe and we put some hair on his chest, but he has no bear hand. We did that in the computer later on. We sat him at this table that we had, basically a plastic table. We shot him separately, there were like six shots. The main shot was his hand holding a glass cup. The glass and his hand are separate shots. All the props – the fishs, the nuts, the berries on the plates – they were all separate. Those are real live items we had purchased. All of that stuffs. And of course, we had a background of a cave from a photograph, put that in and it took the text to make it look like it’s made out of honey. Expensive cover [laughs].