![]() ![]() The other track (the larger, the more affecting) is a travelogue of sorts. It feels like something brought back from a nightmare: His newest, The Electric State, is different. They are artifacts recovered from a dream of 1980's and 90's Sweden, of a pastel suburban past littered with robots, spaceships and dinosaur bones. Stålenhag's two earlier art books ( Tales From The Loop and Things From The Flood) exist for me, in a very real way, like an alternate history of a place I've never been, but miss like a second home. ![]() I see his world in the shapes all around me. His art (photorealistic, washed out, laced in neon or icicles, nostalgic and futuristic both at the same time) gets into my eyes and stays there. The stories crawl into my brain and mess with my memory of history, time and place. Most of the time, when I read a Simon Stålenhag book, I spend days scanning the trees around my house, looking for a shudder in the leaves for the hump of a giant robot rising over the treeline, just beginning to stand. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Electric State Author Simon Stalenhag ![]()
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