Synopsis
Sometimes I dream about myself
and in my dream I'm someone else
But also, I am me
becoming the horse that I want to be.
Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt...
Details
25 February 2020
9781770463479Reviews
"A fantastic exploration of movement and form. Evokes equal parts Jules Feiffer and Tove Jansson."—Michael DeForge, author of Leaving Richard’s Valley.
"I wish Disa Wallander’s images could be eaten or stolen or inhabited. Because I find them so beautiful it hurts to have to settle with just looking at them. But the greatest thing about her book is that it talks about exactly that—the fact that we humans would sometimes like to inhabit works of art or become horses, and that these desires are as comforting as they are painful."—Julie Delporte, author of This Woman’s Work
"Wallander’s work in Becoming Horses strikes a lot of notes that modern cartooning seems to have eschewed... A style of cartooning that embraces the unknown and is comfortable with ambiguity. There’s a simplicity of line that is juxtaposed with emotional complexity. It’s a cartooning style that lets readers fall into themselves. It’s a style that makes Becoming Horses both familiar and powerful."—Solrad
"Wallander’s ideas about art are provocative, and her illustrations are incredibly striking in this memorable debut."—Thomas Batten, Library Journal
"This wry meditation on art and self-expression... and gently philosophical ramble is likely to appeal to creative types who periodically get stuck on the question of what creativity is for."—Publishers Weekly
"[T]he mixed media adventure that this book provides is a very serious and lively demonstration of play."
—The Quietus
