Division Bell: Stone Heads
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About This Work
The Division Bell was about communication, a theme brought to the fore by the lyrics of Polly Samson, David Gilmour's future wife. Thorgerson's cover image explored the idea on a grand scale, with two sculpted metal heads the height of a double-decker bus, partly based on the Aku-Aku statues on the Easter Islands. As a link to Pink Floyd's earliest days, the statues were photographed in a field in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with Ely Cathedral visible between the two heads, and with four lights between the mouths denoting speech. Viewers studying the image would soon notice a third 'face' between the two heads. "The single eyes of the two faces looking at each other become the two eyes of a single face looking at you, the viewer", explained Thorgerson, discussing what would be his final Pink Floyd studio album cover.