Elegy for an Elephant is a picture book of three children seeking their father’s soul. It honors ways we can connect to loved ones we have lost, and the timeless nature of love. This is an artwork from one of it’s pages.
Here the children fly home by sunrise. They return to the reef to comfort their mother, with the wisdom they are carrying the love of their father with them. He lives on in their living, in the feathers of their flying and in the fins of their flowing. Happier days are on the horizon, as the ocean opens to welcome them back.
Elegy for an Elephant is the debut imprint from Narratives of Nature. The artwork in this book was created with watercolours, pencils, sea salt and seawater sourced from Aireys Inlet, Cape Town, Melbourne and Sydney. The artwork was hand painted, professionally scanned and digitally harmonised on Photoshop.
This is a limited one of one edition: specially printed for the Arte Laguna Prize in large format.
