This book tells the story of life from the big bang through to the impossibly unlikely arrival of just one of the over 8 billion humans alive today – you! An exploration of deep time, for contextualising all the messiness going on in the world, and perhaps providing a little perspective on our heaviest feelings of grief and mortality.
The illustrations are reproductions of twelve traditional wood engraving prints on handmade Awagami paper, complemented by suminagashi (which translates as ‘floating ink’, and is made by dropping sumi ink in water) end pages, intended to evoke tree rings and the undulations of space and time.
The book is professionally printed and bound, finished with a limited run cover band featuring an original wood engraving and embossing.
This book tells the story of life from the big bang through to the impossibly unlikely arrival of just one of the over 8 billion humans alive today – you! An exploration of deep time, for contextualising all the messiness going on in the world, and perhaps providing a little perspective on our heaviest feelings of grief and mortality.
The illustrations are reproductions of twelve traditional wood engraving prints on handmade Awagami paper, complemented by suminagashi (which translates as ‘floating ink’, and is made by dropping sumi ink in water) end pages, intended to evoke tree rings and the undulations of space and time.
The book is professionally printed and bound, finished with a limited run cover band featuring an original wood engraving and embossing.
