![]() ![]() There's obviously something being explained, though one is never quite sure what. The language seems familiar, but is utterly alien. The asemic script that runs throughout merely heightens the strangeness of the volume. It is reminiscent of the old Harper's Magazine Travelers Companion, a 19th-century anthropological survey, a modern biology and environmental science textbook, and a series of travel brochures. Suddenly, a wayward creator-god shows up with a genetic splicer set to randomize the mixing of species and common objects, creating before the artists a set of real-life models from which they might take inspiration.Ĭodex Seraphinianus is a natural history of the surreal, a book that truly defies categorization. Escher, Albrecht Durer, and Salvador Dali were locked in an underground dungeon with an infinite amount of art supplies and only LSD to eat. ![]()
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