Broccoli: Devotion to the Otherworld: The Art of Bethany van Rijswijk

Some books you flip through, and others you inhabit. Devotion to the Otherworld clearly belongs to the second category. This volume gathers Bethany van Rijswijk's richly layered collages, an artist already known as the star illustrator behind Broccoli's best-selling oracle decks, and takes us deeper into her world.

Here, scissors rend to repair, and familiar notions of scale and import are disrupted to spellbinding effect: flowers and toadstools tower over human figures, while dew-soaked grasses part to reveal other worlds. A body of work that conjures lost wisdom and ways of understanding many have forgotten.

Presented in a full-color hardcover format, the book also plays with material itself: high-end art paper, transparencies, gold page edges, special foils and debossing enrich each page, inviting us to slow down and look closely at the web of relationships that surrounds us.

Details:

• Hardcover, full-color
• 112 pages
• Dimensions: 12" x 9" x 0.55"
• High-end art paper and transparencies
• Gold page edges, special foils and debossing

A book to open slowly, like stepping into a clearing.