Zenith

By: Maria Medem

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Hardcover | 8 December 2022

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120 Pages

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18.7 x 24.2 x 1.8

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Under an ever-present orange sun illuminating a desert landscape, two artisans, one for glass the other for clay, meet every day for lunch and chat. Both are sleepwalkers, but experience this phenomenon in drastically different ways.

The potter hates his somnambulism, considers it an uncomfortable part of his being as if he shared a body with a stranger. Whenever he becomes aware of it, he suffers, a sense of anguish and despair invades him. The glassblower, however, is not nearly as bothered by being a sleepwalker. One night, he wakes up startled. Taken over by insomnia, he goes to his workshop and there he will make a horrifying discovering that will trigger the conclusion of this story. With an evocative colour palette ranging from deep blue to bright orange that will certainly remind one of George O'Keeffe's paintings of the desert, enigmatic landscapes and atmospheres reminiscent of Giorgio De Chirico's metaphysical paintings, Zenith is a book that gets under one's skin and gets to the reader on a deeper, beyond rational level.

Industry Reviews

'A conversation between two men about their dreams. A reality that liquefies to become inseparable from the oneiric, like two sides of a coin with which Maria Medem plays to create a unique narrative. A thriller. Maybe only a dream. Spectacular.' -Alvaro Pons

'The problem with this book is that it is too beautiful. At times I can't even handle it, I have to put it down and do something else. The whole book is saturated to the maximum, each page a testament to the infinite possibilities of offset printing. Peach, melon, turquoise, blood. Gradients of sunsets that give rise to the texture of the paper itself. Ever since I found out about Maria Medem, she's been a huge inspiration for me. I wish I could make comics with such alienating grace. The way tears mosaic across people's faces, the strange materiality of a glass shattering and turning to water, the infinite loneliness of a table expanding in a vibrant dream-desert. It's like the loneliness of Pedro Paramo meeting the colors of Suspiria.'-Emma Roulette- Barcelona-based illustrator and comic artist from Florida

'Maria Medem's atmospheric illustrations are a soothing tonic for a hectic world'-Lorna Pittaway, itsnicethat.com

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