Under the Trees_pop up  executed in the year 2016/2017, is entirely made and bound by hand. The textures and characters are computer reworked monotypes . Parallel to this three-dimensional version, a more manageable copy is also born, Under the trees_leporello , also hand-bound, with a small sheet metal plate on the cover used in the creation of one of the characters and an Italian version of it Under the odorous pine.

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Phees is a small anthropomorphic bird who, together with his sister Penny, his father Squall and his mother Sadlie, lives underground, inside the dens abandoned by the old foxes. The little inhabitants of the underground on sunny days come out of their burrows: they play, sing, dance and take flight towards the clear blue sky, but what happens when night arrives and darkness envelops their world? ...

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The “Under the Trees” project is in continuous development, the story is expanded and adjusted every day as this book is only the first of a small trilogy about the world, still unknown of the little Avis.

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2017

 

225mm x 295mm x 550mm,

Scans of monotypes digitally reworked to compose textures and characters, retractable extractable text positioned at the side of each page