5/20/2023 0 Comments Actual size by steve jenkins![]() ![]() Sadly enough, however, in a book that is so intimately concerned with measurement, only English units are used, seemingly ignoring the fact that the metric system is the universal language of science worldwide. Four concluding pages provide more information about the featured animals, along with reasonably sized, full-body reiterations of the illustrations. Jenkins exploits it for all its worth, including a fold-out of a crocodile’s jaw and a snarling tiger whose face spills off the page. It’s a fascinating subject, and one that will resonate with an audience for whom relative size is a matter of daily interest. ![]() ![]() Some are so huge that only parts can be seen (the one-foot-diameter eye of a giant squid) and others require some squinting (the 1/3-inch dwarf goby). Wonderfully textured collages are set against a white background, accompanied by a minimal text gloss about the animals, and their sizes. A new exploration of the biological world, from one of the current masters of collage, features life-size-not scaled-representations of the extremes of the animal kingdom. ![]()
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