Eminem's album "Recovery" depicts him walking alone on a faded blue sky background, representing his journey of recovery from past drug addiction and other problems. The red cross replacing the O in "Recovery" and the medical sign symbolism references Eminem recovering from an illness or addiction. The blurred background focuses attention on Eminem moving forward on the road to recovery on his own through a difficult process as indicated by the title and cover art imagery.

1. The red cross that is there in place of the letter O in
the word recovery is there to represent a
recovery/medical sign. Relating this medical sign to
the artist “Eminem” and with the title recovery it
tells us that he might be recovering from an illness
or maybe a drug addiction.
Here there is a picture of Eminem
walking on the road. This is used to
represent the fact that he is on the
road to recovery, which obviously
relates to the title ‘recovery’
The blue coloured sky in the
background is faded which
gives us the feeling that his
life had previously been
messed up and that he is
trying to make it better.
The background is also really
blurred to make the attention of
the viewers go onto Eminem.
The backwards E stands for existence
insisting that Eminem is alive and
living.
The fact that he is walking by himself tells us that he has
gone through this long and difficult process by himself
and that he is almost coming to the end of this difficult
time.
The cover of this album represents
Eminem’s recovery from the past to
present, moving on from violence and
drugs for the better of himself, as the title
of the album is ‘recovery’ and the O
symbolises medical problems