![]() ![]() There is an accidental ‘poetry’ that often occurs using collage, where a chapter heading in an engineering manual might pass as an unintentional comment on life. These were used by my Dad when he was an engineering student, and largely inspired much of the book’s aesthetic they add some sense of the dry and industrial world presented in the paintings, a sort of meaningless functionality - pointless and amusing also. There are no empty spaces on the pages, with all images framed by a collage of text and diagrams cut from old physics and maths textbooks. Visually, the book is quite dense, which reflects the environment it depicts, having a sense of congestion and compression. Shaun Tan, Page Layout Sketches with Draft Text of The Lost Thing, 1999, Shaun Tan Collection, Reproduced with Permission Become a Friend of the National Library.National Library of Australia Publishing.Using the Library Expand Using the Library sub menu.Processing and describing our collections.Collections Expand Collections sub menu. ![]()
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