Here’s a story that isn’t true: a group of esotericists create an imaginary country built out of alternate mathematics, aesthetics, and philosophies. To make the world feel, they write an encyclopedia enumerating in bland, painstaking details of their imagined country. In the same way that the original encyclopedia brought the our own world into the imaginations of people all over Europe, this encyclopedia of the imagined country is so real, so specific, so alien, so plain, so clear, that it begins to manifest on the real world. Like an invasion of the imagination, the imaginary country soon overtakes our own, and we find ourselves in a world that never was. That’s an imaginary story that may well be the plot of a short story by a certain Argentinian writer of some renown.
Here’s a story that is true: in 2022 Vorja Sánchez self-published his own volume of an imaginary world, Invisible Home. Sánchez’s work could easily have invaded from an imaginary country. His poetry in particular feels like something one might find if they fell into a Pottery Barn from another world. Here’s more from imaginary from COLOSSAL:
Beastly jugs and vessels with legs comprise the latest in illustrator Vorja Sánchez’s eclectic and uncanny menagerie. A new print titled “Ancient Pottery” draws inspiration from a wide variety of stoneware urns, bowls, and statuettes from prehistoric cultures around the world, imbuing each of them with the lively features of animals or mythological beings. Produced from an original piece made with pencil, ink, and watercolor on cotton paper, the artist emphasizes the appearance of age, as if a patina has formed over time across the entire composition.
“I am fascinated by the simple and imperfect but pure and free forms of ancient ceramics,” Sánchez tells Colossal.
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