“In the mid 1990s we began to ask friends, students and acquaintances to sketch how they see the passage of time.”.

“Surprisingly, most of them drew something immediately and without giving it much though, as if they always knew what the shape of time looked like.”.
Visualizing Time. A research project by Camilla Torna for Icastic.
Above: “How time goes by. Looking ahead, looking back. Inside the boat, the present.”, detail.
(Courtesy of Camilla Torna)

“There exists a tale, handed down from times long ago, of two travelers on a pilgrimage. Hungry and tired from a long day’s journey, they come to a small, impoverished, medieval village, where they decide to rest by the side of the road.”. (The Stone Soup Legend)

Above: Anais Vaugelade, cover for the picture book Une soupe au caillou (A stone soup).

“It is unfair to judge Art Frahm by these illustrations.”.

“But the falling-panty theme is a staple of his work.”.

Art Frahm: a study of the effects of celery on loose elastic.
From The Institute of Official Cheer by James Lileks.
Above: O-Oh! (1950).

“The Codex Seraphinianus (Luigi Serafini, 1978) appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an incomprehensible (at least for us) alphabetic writing.”. (from Wikipedia)

Above: a detail of the book, from the Codex set on Flickr.

The trap exists for the fish.
Once you have the fish, you forget the trap.
The words exist for the meaning.
Once you have the meaning,
you forget the words.

“14-year-old Maya survives a terrible train accident only to find herself in a strange world where people, places, and souls are made of paper.
Now, hunted and alone, she has 11 days to find the bodies, reconstruct the accident, and return home.”.

Paper Eleven. A clone.manga project by Daniel Kim.