Martin Grat
ER随ANYfrst read jules vermes's Jowmoy to the Centre of the Earth several years ago. When I was readng it again,began to make ittle drawings of the character Professor Lidenbrock and Axel hs nephew, as well as theterrain they pass througn and the monsters they encounter undergrourd Oddly enough, ther joumeybegns m Anona. Hamburg, where I have been livng for I0 years From there. they head to leland
where they begin ther descent nto the centre of the earth.
At cne point. the Professor and hi nephew get lost but n spte of the terrifying, monsters and
menacing volcanoes end up finding their way agarMy idea was to depict ther journey from ther home to Hamburg and then onto leland and the centreof the earth and, snal their retum home. The reader would follow the afferent stages of ther joumeyby turing the pages, as well as locking for the best path to take at the same time as them. This way, thereader could get lost tool I therefore imagined the book as being a bit like a maze. I decided to split thestory up into five parts that were made up of the most mportant passages of the book Once the fivescenes had been roughly designed. I had to deconstruct the book to be able to design each part down
to is smalest detailThen I began the process of constructing correcting, re-produoing, re constructing and correcting oncemore. After that I started making the final drawings with paint and ink, Because I decided to prnt the
bock in two colours. I had to draw everything twice. making 400 smal drawings in totalWrting the assembly nstructions and the des gning the printed sheets took me another coupe of daysI then printed 500 nine-page copies of the book in two colours using my old Rotaprint R45K offset
printing press Then, after a day cr two of drying I created the frst colour boaks
It was a great feeling to leaf through the first copy of a new pop-up booe
Remarks from Martin Graf juy 201I

对那些我正在爱着或者曾经爱过的人,我希望你们明白,我多么希望付出全部为你们停留,如今我唯一能做的,就是把你们刻在我的骨头里,即使时光列车拖着我的肉身路远行,至少你们的名字和名字牵扯的记忆,被我带走了,这是我对时间能做的唯一反抗。

说实话我一直不理解,也一直像个任性的孩子接受不了,为什么时光这列车一定要开得这么快,为什么还要有各自那么多分岔,我不知道我们这么急匆匆地到底要去向何方?但我知道,或许不仅是我一个人在大呼小叫,那些静默的人,内心里肯定和我一样地潮汐,我不相信成熟能让我们接受任何东西,成熟只是让我们更能自欺欺人。

生活从来不是那么简单的梦想以及磨难,不是简单的所谓理想还有阴谋,生活不是那么简单的概念,真实的生活要过成什么样是要我们自己完成和回答的。


或许,生活就是张这样的问卷,你没有回答,它会一直追问下去,而且你不回答这个问题,就永远看不到下一个问题。

海藏不住,也圈不住。对待海最好的办法,就是让每个人自己去寻找到和它相处的方式。每片海,沉浮着不同的景致,也翻滚着各自的危险。生活也是,人的欲望也是。以前以为节制或者自我用逻辑框住,甚至掩耳盗铃地掩藏住,是最好的方法,然而,无论如何,它终究永远在那躁动起伏。


我期许自己要活得更真实也更诚实,要更接受甚至喜欢自己身上起伏的每部分,才能更喜欢这世界。我希望自己懂得处理、欣赏各种欲求,各种人性的丑陋与美妙,找到和它
们相处的最好方式。我也希望自己能把这一路看到的风景,
最终能全部用审美的笔触表达出来。


我一定要找到和每片海相处的距离,找到欣赏它们的最
好方式

不合时宜的东西,如果自己虚弱,终究会成为人们嘲笑的对象,但有力量了,或坚持久了,或许反而能成为众人追捧的魅力和个性一让我修正自己想法,产生这个判断的,
是厚朴。


你问我,要去到的地方有多遥远
我回答你,比你看得到的最远处还遥远
你问我,想抵达的生活有多宽
我回答你,比你能想象到的一切还宽广