AND ALL THESE GHOSTS
Alix Villanueva
Alix Villanueva
Revisiting the small ghosts of childhood that we carry with us into adulthood. A book of four stories, recalled and collected, in which ghosts from childhood come to haunt and inform empathy, ethics and the world we want to build for ourselves and eachother.
and the tall woman who takes care of me in the afternoons wears a sari, her favourite one is orange and when it is dark outside she tells me about different animals, her favourite subject is birds but I want her to tell me about lizards, so that evening she tells me that the hospital near her house recently took in a girl who had grown scales like a lizard, and a tail too, a foot long and that people are queuing to go and see her, that it was all over the morning’s paper, and I believe her
Limited edition of thirteen handbound books with original lino prints and a blind embossed cover.
150x150mm
2019
and the tall woman who takes care of me in the afternoons wears a sari, her favourite one is orange and when it is dark outside she tells me about different animals, her favourite subject is birds but I want her to tell me about lizards, so that evening she tells me that the hospital near her house recently took in a girl who had grown scales like a lizard, and a tail too, a foot long and that people are queuing to go and see her, that it was all over the morning’s paper, and I believe her
Limited edition of thirteen handbound books with original lino prints and a blind embossed cover.
150x150mm
2019
