Autor: Gabriel Pacheco
Capa dura. Livro silencioso (sem texto).
A ray of light makes its way into a small room: here a child is sleeping and dreaming. The light comes from the door her mother is opening to wake her up. The child gets dressed, but she’s still caught up in her dream. A sad dream, maybe, with a wood, a woodcutter, a giant wolf and a small puddle, a puddle of tears, maybe. The child puts on her red hood, says goodbye to her mother and sets off on her way until she reaches a wood where she meets a wolf. Is she still dreaming? Or is her nocturnal apparition coming true? Thus, the journey of this Little Red Riding Hood begins, in a suspended dimension that invites the reader to define the boundaries between wake and sleep, reality and dream, and to give meaning to those well-known elements that haven’t lost their mystery yet: the light of the moon, the wood, the wolf, the house.
Gabriel Pacheco continues his exploration of classic fairy tales with a very personal interpretation of this well-known story, choosing to create a dialogue between his illustrations and a few verses by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican poet who lived in the XVIIth century. The nocturnal and dreamlike setting of Sor Juana’s poem, First Dream, pairs perfectly with the grey and black images, where a crepuscular light, warm and reddish, gradually fades out to pitch black only to come back, more resplendent than ever, in bright blue: the colour of dreams and of the sky clearing up in the morning.