Becoming Horses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770463479)

Sometimes I dream about myself
and in my dream I'm someone else
But also, I am me
becoming the horse that I want to be.

Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a little--and the shapes of things are not firm but fuzzy. The You you know may shift and take form as a beautiful horse, a sunset, or something so special, so huge that you could never describe it.

Disa Wallander's Becoming Horses is a mix of delicate cartooning and brash collage--watercolor and photography. Her colorful flowing drawings and watercolors are experimental yet accessible, as her characters mull big questions about life and art, philosophizing in a thoroughly modern voice. Bright dialogue and pleading silences create a beautiful journey that is, in fact, "the destination."

Author: Disa Wallander
ISBN-10: 177046347X
ISBN-13: 9781770463479
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 7.30w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2019
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 76