Intelligent Sentient?

By Luke Ramsey

Delicate, complex drawings tell of a science-fiction world

Intelligent Sentient? feels like an artifact from another time--a lost feature in OMNI magazine or the album booklet for a late-1970s Hawkwind record or perhaps a print version of Koyaanisqatsi. Beautiful, detailed filigreed drawings fold in on themselves and blossom out at the reader as time speeds up and contracts. A loose story is told that involves a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilizing nonexistent technology. Factories and tree houses teem with life, and the city nestles up against a landscape filled with dinosaurs, apes, and dragonflies living peacefully side by side.
Intelligent Sentient? is a series of images that are tied together not in narrative but in a progressing theme, the takeaway being that everything is connected. The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and backward and returned to and treated like a mystical text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770461779
• ISBN13: 9781770461772
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.1" x 7.6"