I picked up this A6 book from the library being interested by the title on the spine, 'how long have I been dead?'. I was curious about the contents of the book, but I was quite surprised when I looked inside. It is honestly the weirdest/most trippy book I've ever looked at!
There wasn't a great deal of information available online with regards to the illustrator, Andrew James Jones, however I did find a statement saying that some of these illustrations featured in an exhibition in London in 2007. The caption stated 'The work represents an ongoing investigation into the notion of contemporary grotesque. Clashing the disparate concepts of the object and the humour into a single contained image in an attempt to activate a fluctuating unresolved response within the audience'
A 'fluctuating unresolved response' was the exact response that I had. The illustrations are so bizarre and surreal that I could not make sense of what was going on, or what the message was trying to say. However I commend Jones for his portrayal of his vast and obscure imagination through his disturbing fictional characters and their actions.
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