EL GRAN ESPÍRITU
Book published by the publishing house Saposcat, through the Fondo Nacional del Fomento del Libro y la Lectura (National Fund for the Promotion of Books and Reading). The illustrations of this album book were part of the international exhibition of illustrators in Bologna children's book fair 2020 and was awarded within the 20 best Ibero-American books by Fundación Cuatrogatos 2021.
Saposcat publisher Santiago, Chile. 2019 ISBN 978-956-9866-11-1
A book by Tomás Olivos (selected in the illustrators' exhibition of the Bologna Book Fair 2020).
Edition: Hardcover
Size: 17.5 x 25 cm
84 pages
ISBN: 978-956-9866-11-1
A young man feels consumed by routine and decides to make a great journey: he reaches a tributary of the Amazon to go into the unknown, where a shaman lives with his people. There he will have a profound inner experience that will lead him to discover new ways of seeing the world.
"This luminous story takes us on a journey to the jungle of Peru and at the same time to the depths of consciousness. With synthesis and strength, it evokes psychedelia, art brut and Shipibo culture. It is said that the concoction ingested by the protagonist allows the spirit to leave the body without dying. If what you see in that trance is what this book shows, I would like to try it". Paloma Valdivia
