The first thing that struck us is the materiality of this book: the raggedness of the paper used in the cover, the ornamented and whimsical title lettering that leads to a lively interior, full of oddly-cut images and drawings and texts. It’s almost as if all of its content was found along the journey and archived in this little field notebook. All came together when we discovered that the book is inspired by the phenomenon of cabinets of curiosities; for Paradis feels as if a Wunderkammer were to be turned into a publication: the overlapping images interact with each other, creating different compositions every turning of a page.
The first thing that struck us is the materiality of this book: the raggedness of the paper used in the cover, the ornamented and whimsical title lettering that leads to a lively interior, full of oddly-cut images and drawings and texts. It’s almost as if all of its content was found along the journey and archived in this little field notebook. All came together when we discovered that the book is inspired by the phenomenon of cabinets of curiosities; for Paradis feels as if a Wunderkammer were to be turned into a publication: the overlapping images interact with each other, creating different compositions every turning of a page.