A beautiful art book created by mixed media artist Monica Hui Hekman featuring poems and matching animals.
In Hekman’s recent series, a book of animal portraits and poetry, Animals on Land (2014), Hekman begins by sculpting a clay figure as a reference for the illustration, which is then scanned into a computer and made into a vector graphic. From that pattern, Hekman cuts and sews fabric to create a layered applique collage.
“I create art to celebrate and delight in the beauty of strangeness. The exploration and depiction of creatures with seemingly hybrid features is most interesting to me, because these natural anomalies harken to evolution, myth, and imagination.” – Hekman
