![]() ![]() The book is not a substitute for Byrne’s music or the Broadway musical-which is scheduled to return in September and will soon become a documentary by Spike Lee-but it does share the same sense of artistic daring, naiveté, and childlike wonder. Taken together, all of the text would likely fit on one page, and the sketches can be flipped through in a matter of minutes. “We’re only tourists in this life,” says another. “I’m not alone and we’re all the same, and the world won’t end, it will just change its name,” reads the accompaniment to two drawings of a woman who appears to be very much alone, dancing. ![]() At times, it feels like Byrne is channeling the aphoristic, sloganeering spirit of Truisms, the shifting-viewpoint series of maxims by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. Who we are thankfully extends beyond ourselves.to the connections between all of us.” It’s a slim, suggestive volume, with sparing use of words amid the stark imagery. The author opens with what seems like a statement of purpose: “Despite all that has happened, despite all that is still happening, I think there is still possibility-we are still a work in progress. The companion volume to the author’s acclaimed Broadway production of the same name.Ĭonceived before the pandemic, Byrne’s collaboration with New Yorker illustrator Kalman proceeds through a series of sparsely rendered full-color images about connection and how it feels to be together even when we are each alone. ![]()
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