Fruit and Vegetables as Book Art by Vanessa Dualib
|I couldn’t resist one more. Vanessa Dualib [previously] combines fruit, vegetables, photography and puns into a great series of photos called “ρLªYinG ωiTh mŸ fOoD,” and she’s also staged a few awesome book art cover reproductions. Up top is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 classic, The Little Prince now known as The Little Carrot. It’s available as prints, posters and cards here.
Next we have Where the Wild Things Are. In a brief WeLoveYouSo interview from 2009, Dualib explains:
I was pretty young when I first read [Maurice] Sendak’s book, and it was totally different from anything else I had ever seen or read. The illustrations blew my mind, and there was also this other ‘thing’ about this book, something that only later on my life I could define better. And that was actually that for me the essence of WTWTA lies in the genuine ability of the book to portray the feelings and fears of a child…
And so she made Max the king of all wild fruits. Awww…