Mia Hanson is one of my oldest and dearest friends who also happens to be one of my very favorite artists. We met in high school and became instantly enchanted by one another. Mia has been a photographer for most of her life and has been taking beautiful, haunting photos for as long as I've known her. Mia's work is dark and ethereal, spooky and opulent. Sometimes her pictures are stark and urban in feel, and sometimes they seem to depict a world between the pleats of time — not attached to any particular era or place, but capturing instead imagery that is sensitive, stunning and uniquely soulful. She traps light and shadow so elegantly, often taking advantage of natural illumination, and other times artfully designing striking lighting effects in a studio environment. Mia's subject matter is fearless and intense, the desired circumstances being conjured with make-up, costuming and intriguing settings, though she is just as capable of pulling drama from the world unstaged. Mia uses many unusual darkroom exposure techniques, painting and blurring the photographs during the developing process to create images that have depth and texture as well as delicacy. It is Mia's ghostly blue photograph entitled "Marie's Soul" which graces the CD cover and interior artwork of The Thing That Feels. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in the United States and in Europe and has also been published in many magazines and books.

— Hannah Fury

Scott Radke is an incredible artist who makes beautiful, emotionally inspired and undeniably alive marionettes. His unique creations exhibit a flawless merging of both sweetness and darkness. I love Scott's work so much because he has such a powerful awareness of the overlapping of those two extremes. He understands completely how a creature can be both sweet and sensitive, but menacing and disturbing too. Most people would only be able to appreciate one or the other side of the spectrum, but Scott allows these seemingly opposing characteristics to be stitched together seamlessly in his work. His puppets are gorgeously detailed, meticulously yet organically and intuitively crafted, and full of feeling and charm — sometimes serene and pretty or innocent and hopeful, sometimes sorrowful and pensive or shifty-eyed and mischievous, sometimes haughty and a bit disdainful and sometimes even downright grotesque — and always worthy of complete devotion. Scott always seems to capture some startling and perfect combination of emotions in every puppet he creates. The jointed little arms and legs, the vulnerable costumed bodies, and thoughtful, sentient faces of his puppets are lovingly sculpted, sewn and painted by hand. Each is one of a kind and all are absolutely captivating. Scott created a heartwrenching puppet for me which will be cast in an upcoming music video. I had seen a few photos of my marionette before she traveled to me, and though the photographs were wonderful, they did not prepare me for how beautiful and charismatic she is in person and how luminous and expressive her eyes are. Scott's work is exhibited in esteemed galleries nationwide and collected by people all over the world. He also draws and paints.

— Hannah Fury