E S P I N H A Ç O
Espinhaço is a conceptual book cover for a fictional psychological horror novel by Aurora Valadares.
"The story: in 1983, a dam floods a small village in Minas Gerais, and the town swears nobody lived there. Forty years later, a drought empties the reservoir and reveals twelve skeletons, each one with a white orchid growing between the vertebrae. Helena, a forensic expert, comes back to her hometown to identify the bodies. She has a memory gap that covers exactly the year of the flood, and a spine condition that matches the victims. The more she investigates, the less she can tell if she is uncovering a crime or remembering one."
TIMELAPSE
Timelapse: Espinhaço cover illustration.
MERCHS
Small pieces to build a world around the book: two bookmarks, a wax seal and an enamel pin.
Conceptual project. Author, story and publisher are fictional.
Illustration and design by Ronni Piovesana (ronpfr@gmail.com).
Open for book cover and editorial illustration commissions.
