ANIMA MUNDI - limited edition printed book

ANIMA MUNDI is available as a beautiful, digitally printed five metre long concertina format book. The black book-cloth cover is blind debossed with the title and each book is housed in a black card slipcase. Edition of 200 / editioned, with signed certificate of authenticity.

The edition was self-published in collaboration with Antlers Gallery, Bristol, UK and was funded by an extremely successful kickstarter campaign. It was then expertly printed by BOOKWORKS, London, UK

ANIMA MUNDI explores Myth in its wider sense, anachronistically bringing together icons and motifs from different world mythologies to create an enigmatic open-ended, wordless narrative. The pages of the concertina can be (re)combined with each other; evading any finite ending and layering on mystery. The tactile experience of this work is a pleasure as the viewer is given ownership of how their personal narrative unfolds.

Tim worked on the original of ANIMA MUNDI for over two years and as such the drawing is rich in both imagery and emotion. The book’s title comes from the Latin for “Soul of the World” and is, according to several thought systems, an intrinsic connection between all living things on the planet; an energy which relates to our world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body. This idea originated with the Greek Philosopher Plato but also relates to ideas found in Animism which predates this and which held that spirits exist in everything in nature such as other animals, plants, rocks, rivers, thunder, even shadows.

See more about the work and the successfully completed kickstarter that made this project possible here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antlersgallery/anima-mundi-tim-lanes-5-metre-concertina-book-draw

The ORIGINAL artists’ book ANIMA MUNDI (Soul of the World) is a five metre long, graphite drawing on paper, presented as an A5 concertina book with slipcase and is available on request.