A Crooked Mile - Selected Illustrated Nursery Rhymes
Mother Goose: ancient deity, guileful grandmother, oracular shapeshifter or street-corner storyteller?
Her rhymes are familiar and strange and woven into our everyday speech and memory, whether we know it or not, and invite a kind of sideways-curiosity, the way of which which we all knew well as children.
In this unique chapbook, artist Rima Staines has gathered together an unusual collection of nursery rhymes and illustrated them in her inimitably heartful yet uncanny style, alongside an insightful commentary, in order to reawaken the marvelling for this realm of the moonlit-impossible. Come one and all, old and young, walk this crooked mile in search of the golden egg of your days of yore.
Mother Goose: ancient deity, guileful grandmother, oracular shapeshifter or street-corner storyteller?
Her rhymes are familiar and strange and woven into our everyday speech and memory, whether we know it or not, and invite a kind of sideways-curiosity, the way of which which we all knew well as children.
In this unique chapbook, artist Rima Staines has gathered together an unusual collection of nursery rhymes and illustrated them in her inimitably heartful yet uncanny style, alongside an insightful commentary, in order to reawaken the marvelling for this realm of the moonlit-impossible. Come one and all, old and young, walk this crooked mile in search of the golden egg of your days of yore.
Mother Goose: ancient deity, guileful grandmother, oracular shapeshifter or street-corner storyteller?
Her rhymes are familiar and strange and woven into our everyday speech and memory, whether we know it or not, and invite a kind of sideways-curiosity, the way of which which we all knew well as children.
In this unique chapbook, artist Rima Staines has gathered together an unusual collection of nursery rhymes and illustrated them in her inimitably heartful yet uncanny style, alongside an insightful commentary, in order to reawaken the marvelling for this realm of the moonlit-impossible. Come one and all, old and young, walk this crooked mile in search of the golden egg of your days of yore.
A CROOKED MILE measures 148mm x 148mm. It's printed on thick 100% recycled paper and card by a workers' co-op in London and it contains 40 internal pages.