In the book design, every aspect (the typographic grid, the unified script, the hardcover and semi-pocket format, the Careof as a synonym for economy, and the vernacular as the language of poetry) serves a narrative function.
The project is an exploration of visual experiments coupled with a broader literary reflection on the special physical and emotional nature of the Marcésina Plain, with which its inhabitants share a unique relationship that transcends time and space. It consists of a collection of signs. Only those familiar with the emotional geography of Marcésina can read its asemic font through the anonymous appearance of the meadows. Marcésina is simultaneously moon, sea, prairies, and steppe. It encompasses the Vaia storm, the Great War, and prehistoric shamanism.
A new method of reading, powered by taxonomic poems, will convey the density of the plain to everyone’s sensibility, allowing for an intimate, not merely descriptive, knowledge. Marcésina proposes an alternative culture to the contemporary paradigm. There's no need to change it by bringing the city to it, but rather to change ourselves through our perspective on it, thereby restoring the salvific value to places outside the center.
