“Every page is sublime! Landis Blair’s pen is meticulous and precise and brings enough depth to this fable to immerse us completely and believe in the formidable power of nature.”
Going South is the story of our last journey, the ultimate migration at the end of our lives. Landis Blair tells the fable-like tale of an old man's last moments, or rather, his last magnificent gesture who carefully chooses and organizes the conditions of his departure. A spectacular and glorious departure, in full communion with the world and nature, with the complicity of the birds, who know better than any of us the art of flying and the ways of the sky. "In the end, all's well", we hear at the end of this short, wordless tale. And there is hope.
The spirit of Edward Gorey is never far away in this fable about death and hope. Nature and animals, also dear to Gorey, are the motifs in which Landis Blair's pen-and-ink hatching endlessly, leaving us with a strange addictive impression, as if we always wanted to see more and get lost in these magnificent images with their thousands of tiny strokes that tell the story of the world's vibration.
“Landis Blair, the fabulous author of The Hunting Accident (Sonatine) with David L Carlson, Fauve d’Or 2021, offers us a magical and poetic moment of ornithology based on hatching. An overwhelming splendor.”
