White sheets in which only a thin line shapes the forms of simple, ordinary characters, intent on common gestures, hurried and pure. The English illustrator Pia Bramley creates drawings and engravings of daily rituals, vignettes without filters or pictorial complications, as in the case of the works collected in the latest book “Pandemic Baby: Becoming a Parent in Lockdown“. The illustrated volume (available here) deals with the fluctuating period of the pandemic through the eyes of a newborn who slowly discovers the world, sitting comfortably in his mother’s arms or looking enchanted outside a window.
Pia Bramley’s book is a testimony to the discovery of a new world, inhabited by adults wearing masks who are unaware of anything strange in the eyes of the child. This unawareness is represented through childish gestures such as rebelling against the mother or playing with cutlery, while everything is seen through the eyes of a parent.