Forestonia

A creative binding of Valdur Mikita’s Forestonia / Estwald / Mine metsa!, currently exhibited in Scripta Manent VI competition’s exhibition in Tallinn, organized by The Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders and the Estonian Literature Centre. Especially for this occasion, 150 numbered copies have been printed in English, German and Estonian.

In his texts Valdur Mikita pursuits to find the origins of Estonian culture, its local way of life and humorously revives disappearing cultural phenomena and magical ways of perceiving the life.

Blue goatskin inlays combined with red goatskin onlay. Circular inlay made of handmade original woodblock print in two layers with stereoscopic effect. The text-block includes original cyanotype prints created by Ramunė Širvytė-Jonutė and coloured with red ink.