DaySong Miracle (Past 62)
Client: Paul E. Nelson, Seattle, WA
Timeline: January 2024
Overview: DaySong Miracle (Past 62) is a poetry collection rooted in the DaySong form—a 24-hour writing ritual in which time itself becomes the poem’s structural frame. The cover design needed to reflect the intimacy, duration, and personal resonance of this practice.
Design Approach: I created a hand-painted watercolor portrait of the poet, layered with selected words from the poem itself. This blending of image and text mirrors the DaySong process—where lived experience, reflection, and language accumulate over time.
The cover is entirely analog, with hand-painted watercolor and text layered directly onto the image. The words operate as atmosphere rather than ornament, evoking memory, voice, and the unfolding of a single day as a stand-in for life.
DaySong Miracle (Past 62), by Paul E. Nelson, full book jacket