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Intelligent Sentient?
Luke Ramsey
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Description for Intelligent Sentient?
Hardback. Delicate, complex drawings tell of a science-fiction world. Num Pages: 64 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 284 x 13. Weight in Grams: 474.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770461772
SKU
V9781770461772
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33
About Luke Ramsey
Luke Ramsey co-founded the Islands Fold residency, exhibits internationally, and works as a freelance illustrator for clients such as the New York Times. His practice includes collaboration, design, public art projects, and detailed freehand drawing. Luke's collaborative mural with Josh Holinaty won an award of excellence from The City of Edmonton, and a National Urban Design Medal from the Royal ... Read more
Reviews for Intelligent Sentient?
Looking closely at one of Luke Ramsey's images, one sees the big bold shapes dissolve into a chaos of squiggles only to find new patterns emerging. Somehow he manages to distil the sense of order and chaos found in nature into his work. -Squidface and the Meddler