“All the water in the world today is the same water that first materialised on the Earth four and a half billion years ago. That’s all the water there is…..there won’t be anymore.”
Jacques Cousteau
Marion’s contribution is a recycling of a postcard featuring a work of Paul Klee, entitled ‘Demon above the Ships’. Coupled with the Cousteau quote the result is a multi-faceted and thought provoking response to our SEA CHANGE call out.
Thank you Marion!
Today’s post has brought something very special from writer, zoologist and sometime illustrator Nicola Davies.
The whale swims underneath the city,
Deep down among the roots of steel and concrete,
Where pipes and cables wave like kelp.
Its low voice is held inside the groan of traffic.
Where neon splashes on the tarmac you will see a ripple,
And you’ll feel, in the small, salt pools of every cell,
The echo of its passing
Thank you Nicola!
Today we received our first quadriptych! Four beautiful postcards successfully navigated their way from southern Spain to land on our doorstep. María is both a successful illustrator as well as a trained biologist involved with conservation project Nereide
María previously contributed to MIGRATIONS and we have been discussing future projects together- hopefully we’ll be able to collaborate with our inspirational friend from Tarifa soon!
Thank you Axel for your magnificent contribution to SEA CHANGE – you’ve even gone to the trouble of illustrating the stamp!
During these challenging times Axel has been busy donating his time to help create the imaginative and very informative ‘CORONAVIRUS- A book for children’ available to download for free.
We are delighted to have received a postcard from glass artist Maja Stanic. Maja’s skills with stained glass have translated beautifully to this linocut illustration.
Yuval Zommer, author, illustrator, environmentalist and friend of the ICPBS has created this wonderful postcard for SEA CHANGE . No project about the natural world could be without Yuval’s work- his latest creation of wonder is the The Big Book of Blooms -something beautiful for these challenging times.
Thank you Jane Ray for the first postcard to drop!
It is very special when something as beautiful, sensitive and thoughtful as a Jane Ray illustration arrives through the post. Perfect for the making the waves we want to make.
Today is World Ocean’s Day so the perfect time to launch our new project, SEA CHANGE
As a sequel to our highly acclaimed MIGRATIONS project, the new venture of the International Centre for the Picture Book in Society is concerned with the environment and in particular the Earth’s oceans and sea life.
We live in tempestuous times where the Earth faces climate instability and biodiversity loss. SEA CHANGE will endeavour to highlight the threat that our oceans face through pollution, over fishing and climate warming. From the Arctic seas to the Pacific coral reefs, our seas, oceans and rivers connect us and have long provided stories, folk tales and myths which are shared and migrate between our cultures. We would like to celebrate the role of the oceans as vital to promoting biodiversity, and as places of wonder and imagination.
As with MIGRATIONS we are planning a crowd sourced, postcard call out asking illustrators around the world to send us an illustrated fish or sea creature on the picture side of the card and a relevant message, phrase or thought on the theme on the message side of the card. The donations will form an exhibition which, like MIGRATIONS, will be exhibited around the world and engage with an international audience through workshops, talks and other related activities.
If you would like to take part and contribute to SEA CHANGE please find the brief here.
International Centre for the Picture Book in Society 