Charles Avery

The Islanders An Introduction. Since 2004, Charles Avery has been working on his epic project entitled The Islanders. Avery uses drawing, installations, three-dimensional objects and writing to describe the topology, inhabitants and cosmology of an imagined terra incognita. This much anticipated boo [...]
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The Islanders An Introduction. Since 2004, Charles Avery has been working on his epic project entitled The Islanders. Avery uses drawing, installations, three-dimensional objects and writing to describe the topology, inhabitants and cosmology of an imagined terra incognita. This much anticipated book is the culmination of the first phase of the project. It establishes some of the most important aspects of the island, such as Onomatopoeia, its main town The Plane of the Gods and Heidless Magregors Bar. The Island itself can be interpreted as a metaphor for the world of ideas, a meditation on some of the central themes of philosophy