Charcoal Book Club – Issue 169

 

About the Book: Paraíso by Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández

In his debut monograph, Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández depicts his domestic life and surroundings in the mountains of Costa Rica. 

From the artist:
We ran a healing center, a garden for people to come and rest from their struggles. When it had eventually dissolved, I was wounded. Having once been the healer, I was too afraid to ask for help. Where we lived in the mountains, people would often exclaim how lucky I was to live in such a paradise, one which, for me, carried the ghost of a broken ideal. It became a cave of guilt and shame. Natsuko and the animals, the small slant of light that shone through the cracks of my depression, were emblematic of the freedom I longed for. Through them I could dig my way out and reencounter the beauty of what we really are in this world. I could find my role again.

  • Signed, First Edition Copies

  • Edition of 1000 copies.

  • 10 x 15 inches.

  • 72 pages.

  • 36 tritone and 5 color plates on uncoated paper.

  • OTA binding.

  • Designed by Harrison Miller.