Really really happy with the result of this illustration I did for the cover of the novel The Flight of the Wooden Dancer, by South-African author Yusuf Manjoo. It has been published by Autumn Light. It is a very inspiring book. You can find it on Amazon.com or at Barnes and Noble. Here is a small excerpt about the story:
- Book cover illustration for The Flight of the Wooden Dancer
Two artists fly from two corners of the world to Vienna to unearth the mystery of the father of romantic music Beethoven’s lost ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. They are like marionettes pulled by the strings of Beethoven, always looking up to the sky to identify the invisible hands surrounding the series of coincidences which draw them together. In the city of music all artists are drawn to the fire of Prometheus, rising toward the sun, turning around the horizon in circles until man lies suspended between the spinning earth and the dizzy sky. In this fantastic exploration into romantic relationships the artists’ reality tends ever closer to magic realism as their stories merge in a climatic rhyming symphony.
