To create the album art, he hired another budget-friendly young student, this one a fine arts senior from Pratt Institute. Naomi Sigrin took photos of a colorful candy machine in a brightly lit campus studio, then captured separate shots of Opal and Nev making various facial expressions. After shrinking prints of the portraits down to size, Sigrin cut out the artists’ heads using an X-Acto knife and pasted them over a few of the candies, making it look as if they were trapped inside and available for a nickel. (To Kelly’s great relief, Opal did not go bald on the cover—she wore her Afro wig
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