This beautiful book is a blind collaboration between Finnish artist Amanda Vähämäki and Italian artist Michelangelo Setola. Inside the silkscreened canvas cover is a series of pencil drawings that “weave a patchwork narrative of metaphoric truths about humans and nature.” Most of the drawings depict some kind of man vs. animal theme- man hunting bear, bird hunting human’s food, dog bites hand, bear eats human sundae. There are little stories throughout which may pick up again in a later drawings. I really like the mixture of realistic delicate drawings with the more naive style of some of the others. It’s one of those books that feels just like a nice object all around. You can get a copy right here (for just 13.95!).

© Julia Rothman 2007