走入森林本就是一件冒險的事,既是與大自然的相處,也是與自己相處。森林裡的路,一如人生的路;路崎嶇、陡峭、平坦、陰暗、寬廣、未曾踏過的……在森林裡什麼都有,練習已知,處理變化,面對未知。這本書是義大利作家與繪者,由美國的Enchanted Lion 出版。裝幀的方式每一頁都是回折,靠近中央的部分夾了兩張拉頁,不論是打凸還是壓印、切割,都試圖突破平常繪本的框架。
書衣的選紙尤其亮眼,彩印在厚描圖紙上,像是迷霧罩著森林,描圖紙書衣是前景,書封成了背景。書名只留在書衣的書背上,簡單明瞭,加上以144頁做成72頁,拿起來是一本相當有份量的書。
——摘錄自Okapi:賴嘉綾:開拓閱讀視野,「不討好」的選書態度──近看《紐約時報》2018年度最佳繪本✕10
A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. Here, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and two gatefolds. A beautifully considered work.
Riccardo Bozzi was born in Milan in 1966. He is a journalist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Violeta L piz is an illustrator from the Spanish island of Ibiza. Her beautifully textured work is filled with personality and playfulness.
Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator based in Berlin. Vidali enjoys botanical gardens and spends his spare time building kites that rarely fly.