A Hole in the Whole

Originally conceived as a unique, hand-painted book, this one-of-a-kind meditation on color and context by artist Eleonora Marton delights in the unexpected elements of life that make us whole.   Inspired by an imaginative game of free association, A Hole in the Whole presents juxtapositions of light and dark, the playful and the profound. Inside, Marton responds to over thirty-seven pairs of identical circles—contrasted and placed against bright pops of color, and increasing in size—with accompanying bits of text, sharing the connections (or surprising leaps) between them. The result is a color-drenched quest to pause and ponder that offers a whole new way of seeing and being. For fans of Ruth Krauss’ A Moon or a Button, wordplay, color, and the slightly absurd. _ Eleonora Marton is an Italian author and illustrator based in London. In addition to exhibiting her paintings, drawings, posters, and fabric works internationally, she creates books and zines. She’s interested in the interactions between images and words, words and space, space and objects, objects and other objects, objects and humans, humans and the mundane, the mundane and stories, stories and narrative fragments. _ Hardcover, $25.00, 76 pages,  4.13 x 5.83 inches, ISBN: 9781962098328