Description: What might a well, a bear, a farmer, an historian respond when Love asks, "What do you know?" This introspective and poetic picture book, created by sisters Aracelis Girmay and Ariana Fields, explores the acts of questioning and listening, shining a light on all of the wisdom these very different, yet interconnected, entities have to offer.
Brief description: Ariana Fields is a graduate of SFAI (printmaking) and the City College Masters of Landscape Architecture program. She is interested in visual modes of storytelling, representations of movement, and works on paper (from drawings and printmaking to mapping and design). Ariana is currently working on garden design projects in Brooklyn and New York State. She is interested in root systems and the relationships between fungi and plants, and thinks of her work in spatial design as an extended study of adaptations that organisms and bodies make in our ever-changing environments. When she's not working on projects, she spends a lot of her time skating, surfing and climbing, and is interested in the movements inspired by those practices.
Review Quotes:
"Authors and sisters Girmay and Fields give voice to a variety of beings, imagining love itself asking, 'What do you know?' and listening carefully to the response... In softly tinted art with the feel of sketchbook pages, ... Fields draws as if setting down memories or dreams, with forms that repeat: people and birds with downcast gazes, bears with great claws, landscapes that undulate like ocean waves. Employing incantatory lines that conjure flame-like warmth and reverence, Girmay and Fields acknowledge the kind of knowing that's older than books."
--Publishers Weekly