Ventriloquism Print
I took the idea of belly-speaking from the original meaning of ventriloquism (to speak from the belly), and decided that the front of the book should show a kind of marionette figure (operating her own strings) whose body was the gingerbread house itself.
From the belly of this character, from the stove of the gingerbread house/body, rises a smoke of characters from the world of these stories: Narwhals, bears, parrot-men, pickpocket pamphleteers, monks, dream-tapirs, witches, monopods, rusalki, selkies, blemmyae .... and a mystery of others.
In the sky above hang many strange planets, even a fob watch, and down below on a railway line from some eastern onion-domed city, travels a train whose track becomes a ladder to the moon.
I took the idea of belly-speaking from the original meaning of ventriloquism (to speak from the belly), and decided that the front of the book should show a kind of marionette figure (operating her own strings) whose body was the gingerbread house itself.
From the belly of this character, from the stove of the gingerbread house/body, rises a smoke of characters from the world of these stories: Narwhals, bears, parrot-men, pickpocket pamphleteers, monks, dream-tapirs, witches, monopods, rusalki, selkies, blemmyae .... and a mystery of others.
In the sky above hang many strange planets, even a fob watch, and down below on a railway line from some eastern onion-domed city, travels a train whose track becomes a ladder to the moon.
I took the idea of belly-speaking from the original meaning of ventriloquism (to speak from the belly), and decided that the front of the book should show a kind of marionette figure (operating her own strings) whose body was the gingerbread house itself.
From the belly of this character, from the stove of the gingerbread house/body, rises a smoke of characters from the world of these stories: Narwhals, bears, parrot-men, pickpocket pamphleteers, monks, dream-tapirs, witches, monopods, rusalki, selkies, blemmyae .... and a mystery of others.
In the sky above hang many strange planets, even a fob watch, and down below on a railway line from some eastern onion-domed city, travels a train whose track becomes a ladder to the moon.
This work is printed on 100% recycled 285gsm (card weight) parchment-coloured Context Birch paper for a beautiful quality warm and earthy print. On the back is printed the title and details of the image along with Rima's mark.
The last picture shows you the image most clearly; though the actual paper background is cream/off-white which gives the image an added warmth, as you can see in the first photos.
Available only in A4 (210 x 297mm) size.
It will come packed carefully in a compostable non-plastic cornstarch transparent sleeve and a sturdy envelope.