There was nothing before.
Then I began to imagine my garden.

Italian illustrator and author Chiara Carrer reveals the secrets of the fascinating and endlessly diverse world of plants in this book that reads like a notebook or diary.
The brushstrokes are strong and colorful, drawn with a variety of techniques.
Line drawings, color compositions, miniatures, and sketches.
Carrère follows the origins of things, studies them in detail, compares them, classifies the pistils of flowers, and contemplates the silhouettes of seeds, roots, and canopy.

Some pictures are informative, others associative. The same is true of the texts, some scientifically accurate, others flaccidly lyrical, including precious poems and aphorisms.
A surprisingly sensual, rich and personal book.

Created by/ Chiara Carrer , 2016 
126 pages, 21 x 16 cm 
Hardcover
Mexico 
3900 yen + tax