Description
Coming from an underground habitat somewhere near you, Mole’s ramblings, mutterings and predictions take us through the year in words and pictures.
This humourous book will strike a chord with all nature-lovers, weathering the storms, emerging through tussocks, with blustering gussets, sunshine and lemon drizzle.
Gone to Ground describes a year of solitude in all kinds of weather through the darkly humorous world of moles, snails, woodlice, slugs and toads. The principal character is the mole: often dismissed as an unwelcome guest in the garden, but their determined work plays its part in the living world.
Jessica Perry‘s lifelong involvement and appreciation of the vitality of soil as a practical gardener acknowledges the importance of the hidden worlds beneath our feet. She explores that hidden domain by drawing at night, allowing the image to emerge through deep concentration with her immersive, nocturnal drawing process.
Fine-liner pens, crosshatching, ink-wash, watercolour and black-inked fingerprints help to build up the miniature illustrations of dark tunnels, sometimes combined with torn papers finally layered around the scene to fully imagine the habitat. Each illustration is partnered with a brief weather report, forming a wry commentary from the underground. The starting point for each text is the BBC local weather forecast for the night the drawing was completed, which Jessica then re-writes to form a personal, humorous and poetic account of that moment.
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