Poetry by Federico García Lorca
Drawings and calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire
San Francisco, 2010
Unique book
7.75 x 10 inches, 28 pages
This book was inspired by my work with Manuel Neri and the poetry of Lorca. Most of the work that I had done with the collaboration had involved, for lack of better words, Lorca's more despairing poetry. I wanted to do something fairly straightforward with a few of his lighter, more playful poems. I chose three poems and balanced them against simple watercolor figure drawings. With the drawings I wanted to capture the directness and simplicity of form seen in Manuel Neri's drawings.