“Immersed in reading a book it feels like [being] inside an architecture, a metaphysical space surrounded by the words,” says Federico Babina, discussing his latest series of illustrations, ARCHIWRITER. In the new series of 27 drawings, the illustrator has created “portraits” of authors by personifying their writing styles, periods, and locations as built environments made from architectural elements and words. Heightening this sense of individuality, Babina states that the resultant portraits can be “fluctuating, vernacular, itinerant, ephemeral, concentric, labyrinthine, surrealist, oneiric, and futuristic.”
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. – Ernest Hemingway
Fiódor Dostoyevski, the philosophical polyphone
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Italo Calvino, the exactitude of imagination
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Franz Kafka, the labyrinth of metaphors
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George Orwell, the effective minimalism
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Jack Kerouac, the improvisation journey
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Charles Bukowski, the urban poetry
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Haruki Murakami, the noisy loneliness
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Hermann Hesse, the hagiography mysticism
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Albert Camus, the sense of isolation
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Milan Kundera, the lightness of absence
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Federico García Lorca, the power of metaphor
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León Tolstói, the ascetic morality
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Paul Auster, the layers of identity
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Ernest Hemingway, the absence of lyrical
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Oscar Wilde, the tears of hedonism
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William Shakespeare, the medieval metaphor
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Raymond Carver, the ordinary details
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William Burroughs, the paranoid order
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Dante Alighieri, the lyric travel
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John Fante, the beauty of bitterness
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Truman Capote, the fashionable nightmare
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Richard Wright, the cage of race
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the timeless isolation
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Henry Miller, the sensuality of reality
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Isaac Asimov, the hidden universe
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Marcel Proust, the structure of memory
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James Joyce, the stream of consciousness
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