New D+Q: Disa Wallander's Becoming Horses asks: "Was it always like this?"

February 24, 2020

New D+Q: Disa Wallander's Becoming Horses asks: "Was it always like this?"

Crafted from petals, gems, glitter, and clay, Becoming Horses is precious, a work of art dedicated to making meaning in a world that will so often refuse to fully come into focus. 

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The graphic novel, Swedish artist Disa Wallander's first with Drawn & Quarterly, is a story that follows three figures as they travel through shifting landscapes, reaching for the Self and instead finding each other, like so many leafy lifeboats in a flood, or amorphous horses in a herd.  
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Reminiscent of the philosophy of Tove Jansson's Moomins, the critical introspection of Eleanor Davis's Why Art? and Lisa Hanawalt's whimsical mixed-media, Becoming Horses is nevertheless so uniquely, brilliantly its own. A creation barely contained by its pages, it trails after the reader like glitter long after its end.

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