GBP 20.00
Sun Shining in the Back of My Head is a raw, intimate collection of scanned mechanical and colour pencil drawings by Lia Kantrowitz, created between 2022 and 2024. This unedited and collaged compilation blurs the line between personal and professional expression, allowing Kantrowitz full autonomy to embrace an analogue style that is clumsy, scattered, and beautifully imperfect.
The book represents a cathartic experiment in recontextualising her art after years of perfecting and refining her work. Fuelled by anxiety and heightened emotions, Kantrowitz's illustrations delve into themes of love, fear, longing, and the intense emotions that surround them. Influences from fantasy, religion, music, and other provocative elements like death and eroticism permeate her work, inviting readers into a vivid exploration of the artist's mind.
With Sun Shining in the Back of My Head, Kantrowitz offers a visceral, honest, and often humorous look at the anxieties and heightened states of the human experience, capturing the essence of her artistic journey with a dramatic, unapologetic flair.