Love & Existential Musings

Book cover illustration/design and book layout for Love & Existential Musings, a poetry book by Max Stossel. Max Stossel is an award winning poet + filmmaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His work has been translated to fourteen languages, won multiple film festivals, and has been viewed and loved by many millions of people around the world. 

The artwork embodies the tension between the heart and mind, through a landscape created from an abstracted heart as the earth, and the brain as a moon, with a daydreaming boy caught in between, and the two parts longing to connect with each other through the sprouting plants.