Intelligent Sentient feels like an artefact from another time - a lost feature in OMNI magazine or the album booklet for a late 1970s Hawkwind record or, perhaps, a print version of Koyaanisqatsi. Beautiful, detailed, filigreed drawings fold in on themselves and blossom out at the reader as time speeds up and contracts. A loose story is told - one that involves a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilising non-existent technology. Factories and treehouses teem with life, and the city nestles up against a landscape filled with dinosaurs, apes, and dragonflies living peacefully side by side. Intelligent Sentient is a series of images that tie together not in narrative but in progressing theme - the takeaway is that everything is connected. The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and back and returned to and treated like a mystical text.
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- Authors:
- Ramsey, Luke
- Year Published:
- 2015
- Country of Publication:
- Canada
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781770461772
- Number of Pages:
- 64
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal
- Publication Date:
- 01/03/2015
- Publisher:
- Drawn and Quarterly
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Drawn and Quarterly
- SKU:
- 9781770461772