"Liber maris borealis", gel pens, hand-madre paper, 2012.

 

«Rutabook” is a project which brings many artists from Ukraine, Russia and other countries together. Author of the project Ruta Korshunova with her own hands prepared handicraft books and sent it by mail to the participants of the project. Each artist decorated the empty pages of the book created specially for him in his authentic style.
That is why the book can be called a piece of art on each stage of its existence – from the moment when amorphous pulp turns to a smooth sheet, to the time when the accomplished book comes to the audience. “Rutabook” balances the spirit of contemporary cultural process and traditions of ancient calligraphy art, book illumination, book illustration.
The books from the project “Rutabook” were successfully exhibited in the National centre of contemporary arts in Moscow, Kiev book and typography museum,, Kharkov city art gallery, Lviv international child's book forum, II international Arsenal Kiev book festival.
Website of the project: http://rutabook.tumblr.com/

 

This book is named “Liber maris borealis” - “Book of a northern sea”. Rough textured paper, leather cover, decorated with a shell found on the Northern sea shore – the books resembles anartifact from an archaic culture of  an indefinite northern country. A story, composed and illustrated by Felix Dankevitch, tells us about a
fisherman's daughter, mysterious sea raven and their son, who parted with his father to unearthly lands behind the horizon. The text is written in Latin language – basic for European culture and giving a rigor of ancient legend to the fairytale.