ALIEN INVASION illustrations » Blog Archive » Nespoon Nespoon is the first Polish artist we’ve worked with! she’s super determined and very very prolific this is just a selection of pictures to show you what she did here in town, she spent almost one month here working in close contact with one of the artisans in the ceramic district and in the meantime she was painting big beautiful stencils here and there in the city. when ceramics were finally ready, she installed them all around this last piece is based on Die Sterntaler a huge thank you to Nespoon and Marcin for being so much indipendent and constantly positive while they were here, working like crazy, under such a non-polish sun
The River: Exploring the Inner Seasonality of Being Human in Gorgeous Watercolors by Italian Artist Alessandro Sanna by Maria Popova A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing. “Love the earth and sun and the animals….read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,” Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass. In The River (public library) from Enchanted Lion — the wonderful Brooklyn-based independent picture-book publisher that gave us such treasures as Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls, Blexbolex’s Ballad, Seasons, and People, the existentially profound The Hole, and the boundlessly soul-stirring Little Bird — Italian illustrator Alessandro Sanna exposes with remarkable sensitivity that gossamer connection between the physicality of the land and our transcendent experience of the passage of time, the inner seasonality of being human. Through his soft watercolors shines the immutable light of existence. The River is easily the most breathtaking book to come out so far this year.