Zoology

The edition was developed for the contest organized by the TI-RE collective for an original one-of-a-kind book on the theme "Paragraph." As the title suggests, participants create a book based on a paragraph from a literary work, and the selected works were exhibited in June 2018 at the Goethe-Institut in Bulgaria.

"Zoology" includes 9 illustrated drawings and tracing paper with text accompanying each one, illustrating the author’s interpretation of a paragraph about the canine tapeworm from a zoology textbook:

"The mature canine tapeworm parasitizes the small intestine of the definitive host—dogs, cats, wolves, foxes. In cross-sections of the small intestine of an infested dog, the mucosa of the intestine appears granular due to the rounded posterior ends of numerous canine tapeworms situated next to each other. Intermediate hosts of the canine tapeworm include cattle, sheep, pigs, humans, and others. Through the feces of the definitive host, an enormous number of eggs are released into the external environment, which must enter the digestive tract of an intermediate host to continue their development."
(from: "Zoology of Invertebrate Animals: Practicum, Part One," Gera Art, 2006).

"I used this paragraph to create an abstract story depicting how the feeling of love spreads and acts like an infection. And in the end—everything ends like a malignant disease."