Tina Zellmer / Boston Globe Books / Book review „Ballerina“
Tina Zellmer was commissioned by Boston Globe Books to illustrate a book review, „Ballerina“ by Patrick Modiano.
It is a French-to-English translation about an unnamed narrator and an unnamed ballerina (and her son) forming an intimate, familial relationship in 1960s Paris, but the central theme of the book is the effervescence of memory. The goal was to create an illustration that conveys the feeling of trying to piece together one’s past memories.
Tina worked with collage of old fotos, acrylics and pens, scanned in and combined together with photoshop.
Art direction: Keilani Rodriguez