"MY SUMMER" BOOK PROJECT
Originally created as a series of illustration for my second-year narrative brief, "My Summer" evolved into a personal memoir focused on nostalgia and childhood. It's a book that honours my grandparents, following our daily summer routine which I puzzled together from childhood memories, anecdotes and old photographs.
"MY SUMMER" Was Highly Commended at the V&A Illustration Awards in 2022
FRAGMENTS FROM THE BOOK
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FOLIO SOCIETY COMPETITION 2023
Submitted illustration based on
"The Fliers of Gy"
"A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS"
Etching and aquatint based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish."
"They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar."
"The angel went dragging himself about here and there like a stray dying man. They would drive him out of the bedroom with a broom and a moment later find him in the kitchen. He seemed to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think that he’d be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels."