Intelligent Sentient?

<p><b>Delicate, complex drawings tell of a science-fiction world</b><br><b></b> <br><i>Intelligent Sentient?</i> feels like an artifact from another time -- a lost feature in <i>OMNI </i>magazine or the album booklet for a late-1970s Hawkwind record or perhaps a print version of <i>Koyaanisqatsi</i>. Beautiful, detailed filigreed drawings fold in on themselves and blossom out at the reader as time speeds up and contracts. A loose story is told that involves a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilizing nonexistent technology. Factories and tree houses teem with life, and the city nestles up against a landscape filled with dinosaurs, apes, and dragonflies living peacefully side by side.<br> <i>Intelligent Sentient?</i> is a series of images that are tied together not in narrative but in a progressing theme, the takeaway being that everything is connected. The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and backward and returned to and treated like a mystical text.</p>