Abstract

What do you think your soul looks like? This fully illustrated hardback publication includes hundreds of drawings from all over the world created in response to this question. Soul is the result of seven years of research by curator Robert Blackson and writer Edward Clapp who have asked everybody from goat herders in Tibet to Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to sit down and draw their soul with just a pencil and paper. The diversity of responses to this elusive question are both poignant and surprising. Each meticulous drawing included in the book is reproduced to its actual size and is accompanied by the name, age and nationality of the artist. Appreciated collectively, Soul is a contemporary portrait of the hopes we have in ourselves.