Inspired by the costume designs of New Orleans' century-old Carnival traditions, The Riddles of Existence lies somewhere between a book and a parlor game, a poetry collection and a fantastic display of visual art. Steeped in the mythology of Mardi Gras and New Orleans, The Riddles of Existence is object, text, and experience. 
An oversized artist's deck of cards, fifty costumes illustrated within are each paired with a riddle in the form of a poem. Another card lists the answers, but not in any particular order. The reader-viewer-player must solve the puzzle of which title goes with which image. A process of elimination should result in The Riddles of Existence being solved.

The Riddles of Existence

Dalt Wonk

Luna Press LLC

French Quarter Fables: Volume I Written &amp; illustrated by Dalt Wonk $25 10 x 12 ¼ portrait 110 pages, 36 full color illustrations Paper: 115 gr Munken Print Cream Cover: Soft cover, foil stamped Published by Luna Press Printed by Oddi Printing Company Most of my life, I've been a writer. Of plays, in particular. They've been produced in small theaters here and there - New York, London, New Orleans and elsewhere. How did I come to write a book of illustrated fables in verse? I suppose the simplest and most honest answer is the delight I get from small animals wearing clothes. This curious delight is more wide spread than you might think. Not long ago, in the French Quarter, where I've lived for more than 30 years, someone started up a new Mardi Gras parade called "Barkus". People dress their dogs in costumes. It was an immediate hit and has grown into a major Carnival event. The fables were, in a sense, my love letter to the French Quarter. The animals, flowers and insects are almost all Quarter denizens and they appear in their natural habitat: a frog in his courtyard lily pond, a rat in the stone riprap on the levee and a roach in the kitchen of a restaurant. Gradually, I enlarged the scope of the fables to include far-off lands and exotic animals. But I've kept the title FRENCH QUARTER FABLES, since the majority takes place there and all were written there and are, no doubt, influenced by its singular, suggestive atmosphere. - Dalt Wonk

French Quarter Fables Vol. 1

Luna Press

French Quarter Fables Vol. II

These collages are assembled from images taken from "La Nature", a 19th century French magazine. Simon Blake meticulously dissects the illustrations from this magazine with carbon scissors and surgical scalpels. He then pastes these pieces together to form new, original, imaginative pictures, to which Wonk has added intriguing, humorous captions."Word and image combine seamlessly to bring to life a fantastic world. An alluring journey. A beautiful sense of bewilderment."- David Gordon Green

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