Do Ut Des / Dádiva

D. P. Watt is a master at transposing allegories into a field of less predictability than expected of them - the field of fantastic event, of fierce transformations in narrative "reality." This unique talent unfolds majestically in the brief but intense tale of Do Ut Des, the first bestiary of the Raphus Chartae series.
At the same time primordial narrative and perfect image of our time, Do Ut Des requires its own editorial configuration so that its impact can be savored. For this reason we use the images of Pieter (or Petrus or Pierre) van der Borcht, engravings made for a certain edition of Physiologus. This is also why we use, as an afterword, an excerpt from Michel de Montaigne's cannibal essay.
This opulent bestiary had two forms as usual in the Chartae series: our readers will be able to choose from the handcrafted edition produced by the master printmaker Márcio Simões at Sol Negro atelier or a hardcover edition printed on the Forma Certa printshop. Both will be limited and numbered, with some graphic effects and experimentation.