It was while he was sketching hybridized human bodies whose limbs took the form of everyday objects – a bicycle wheel, or a fountain pen – that Luigi Serafini realized that adding something resembling a caption would give his work the appearance of a page from an encyclopedia. He spent the next four years building on the idea, developing an imaginary writing system and creating illustrations using coloured pencils to describe a fantastical world, populating it with bizarre creatures and machines, adding a sense of its history, and presenting examples of its food, fashion and architecture. While attempts have been made to interpret its ‘words’, the author has stated that his intention was to recreate in adults a feeling of illiteracy, hoping that ‘perhaps unintelligible and alien writing could make us all free to once again experience those hazy childhood sensations’ in which meaning is assigned by the imagination. One of 978 numbered copies released for the book’s 40th anniversary, this edition is presented in a cloth slipcase and includes a signed print inspired by either Dante or Ovid (selected at random during shipping).
Limited to 978 numbered copies, the deluxe edition is bound in a cloth slipcase and is signed by author Luigi Serafini. Each edition also includes one signed print by author. There are two print options, each a visual tribute to two great classic writers, Dante (DIVINA COMMEDIA REMIX) and Ovid (METAMORPHOSEON REMIX), and their most important works. These two print options will ship at random when ordered from online retailers.
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