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What Color is the Wind
Integrating a physical tactility and materiality to the illustrations in a picturebook is a powerful means of connecting readers to the material here and now. What Color Is The Wind is a picturebook that relies as much on sight as it does on touch. The paintings are layered with colorless embossing and glossy-printed areas that must be experienced by moving one’s hand across the page. Herbauts transforms something as mundane as the wind into an engaging multi-sensory experience that encourages deep questions about the nature of our senses and our means of experiencing the everyday world around us. It provides a beautiful example of how illustration can be used to support an object-based exploration of the here and now.