The fourth album by the band Yes is Fragile. The center of the album is filled with the depiction of a globe. Landmasses in bright green coloration fill the globe as a representation of continents. A large ocean occupies the space between landmasses in a dark shade of blue. As the ocean approaches the shorelines, the color of the ocean shifts in a gradient from dark blue to a light gray. A streak of white extends from one landmass, serving as a bridge connecting the bottom right landmass to the top left landmass.
Large trees fill the empty spaces on land with the top of the trees jutting outwards into space. Gray rock-like formations are placed sporadically within the oceans and along the sides of the continents. Mountains appear on the edges of the globe, disrupting the circular two-dimensional appearance of the world and giving the illusion of a three-dimensional depth. The world sits in a void of dark blue that transitions along a gradient to black the further out the void expands from the world.
Situated above the world is the title which is immediately proceeded by the name of the band. The font is flowing and presented in a bright white that contrasts that void it sits in.
The final part of the album is a brown object containing several bars that run perpendicular along its length. Between the bars are lengths of white rope that connect the various bars in a lattice-like configuration. At the front of the brown object are two curved bars denoting a wingspan. A webbed tail extends from the back of the object, creating the image of a fish.
The first impression given from this impression of the world is that it appears empty of human life. While there is a white road and the brown object is artificial in appearance, there is no indicator of human presence. The world is bright and vibrant which highlights the album’s title as a consequence of humanity’s impact on the world. There are no human cities depicted on the globe and the world is more alive for it.
The jarring brown object contrasts heavily with the nature surrounding it, representing a conflict between civilization and nature. For the red object, the bizarre shape gives it the appearance of a hybrid between a ship, a bird, and a fish which further emphasizes the artificial nature of the object.