“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.”
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. – Ernest Hemingway
Fiódor Dostoyevski, the philosophical polyphone
Italo Calvino, the exactitude of imagination
Franz Kafka, the labyrinth of metaphors
George Orwell, the effective minimalism
Jack Kerouac, the improvisation journey
Charles Bukowski, the urban poetry
Haruki Murakami, the noisy loneliness
Hermann Hesse, the hagiography mysticism
Albert Camus, the sense of isolation
Milan Kundera, the lightness of absence
Federico García Lorca, the power of metaphor
León Tolstói, the ascetic morality
Paul Auster, the layers of identity
Ernest Hemingway, the absence of lyrical
Oscar Wilde, the tears of hedonism
William Shakespeare, the medieval metaphor
Raymond Carver, the ordinary details
William Burroughs, the paranoid order
Dante Alighieri, the lyric travel
John Fante, the beauty of bitterness
Truman Capote, the fashionable nightmare
Richard Wright, the cage of race
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the timeless isolation
Henry Miller, the sensuality of reality
Isaac Asimov, the hidden universe
Marcel Proust, the structure of memory
James Joyce, the stream of consciousness
