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The Giant Storybook Project – Chapter 1 “The Twins”

The Giant Storybook Project è il progetto itinerante del duo tedesco Herakut, le facciate dipinte durante i loro viaggi rappresentano delle ipotetiche pagine sulle quali raccontare una storia. La passione per le storie per bambini e la voglia di sfruttare le pareti non solo come semplici spazi dove lavorare ma piuttosto una vera e propria rete immaginaria attraverso la quale portare avanti un progetto di sensibilità, scoperta e crescita, proprio come nelle favole più canoniche.

Ora gli Herakut passano al prossimo step, The Giant Storybook Project diventa un vero e proprio racconto multimediale, una serie a puntate dove attraverso le immagini, gli sketch ed i bozzetti i due artisti continuano il loro narrare una storia. Si parte con “The Twins”, il primo episodio dove facciamo la conoscenza di due gemelli giganti, sono loro ad aver creato tutto, così uguali ma anche così diversi con uno che crede nella connessione tra lui e gli altri esseri viventi, l’altro gigante invece sembra non riuscire a comprendere questo filo immaginario.

Sono loro i protagonisti del racconto, mettetevi comodi e fatevi rapire da questa storia, con la promessa che continueremo a seguirne gli sviluppi nel corso del tempo, enjoy it.

The Twins

When the world was still young its future was placed in the hands of two extraordinary children: the Giant Twins.
Together side by side, they started shaping the world´s surface. With their fingers they formed the rocks and rivers, and created homes for the plants and creatures around them.

This was their duty. And they did well… at first. But things changed, when a detail that used to be ever so small grew into a grim threat to the balance of the powers on earth. This detail lay inside the brothers.
Although the two were of the exact same kind with the exact same appearance – identically alike from the tops of their curls to the tips of their toes – there was one thing about them that was profoundly different.

The difference was the way they looked at other beings. One little Giant saw a connection between each and every one on earth. He saw an invisible thread than ran through everyone´s heart and tied all creatures together to one big “thing”. (The Giant had no word for it. He only really liked being a part of it.)
Unfortunately, the second Giant saw no tie between him and others. No matter how hard he looked, he did not discover anything that he wanted to be related to. Nothing apart himself appeared to be valuable or vulnerable. What good would then be to bond with lives less worthy than his own?

The Giant Storybook Project – Chapter 1 “The Twins”

The Giant Storybook Project è il progetto itinerante del duo tedesco Herakut, le facciate dipinte durante i loro viaggi rappresentano delle ipotetiche pagine sulle quali raccontare una storia. La passione per le storie per bambini e la voglia di sfruttare le pareti non solo come semplici spazi dove lavorare ma piuttosto una vera e propria rete immaginaria attraverso la quale portare avanti un progetto di sensibilità, scoperta e crescita, proprio come nelle favole più canoniche.

Ora gli Herakut passano al prossimo step, The Giant Storybook Project diventa un vero e proprio racconto multimediale, una serie a puntate dove attraverso le immagini, gli sketch ed i bozzetti i due artisti continuano il loro narrare una storia. Si parte con “The Twins”, il primo episodio dove facciamo la conoscenza di due gemelli giganti, sono loro ad aver creato tutto, così uguali ma anche così diversi con uno che crede nella connessione tra lui e gli altri esseri viventi, l’altro gigante invece sembra non riuscire a comprendere questo filo immaginario.

Sono loro i protagonisti del racconto, mettetevi comodi e fatevi rapire da questa storia, con la promessa che continueremo a seguirne gli sviluppi nel corso del tempo, enjoy it.

The Twins

When the world was still young its future was placed in the hands of two extraordinary children: the Giant Twins.
Together side by side, they started shaping the world´s surface. With their fingers they formed the rocks and rivers, and created homes for the plants and creatures around them.

This was their duty. And they did well… at first. But things changed, when a detail that used to be ever so small grew into a grim threat to the balance of the powers on earth. This detail lay inside the brothers.
Although the two were of the exact same kind with the exact same appearance – identically alike from the tops of their curls to the tips of their toes – there was one thing about them that was profoundly different.

The difference was the way they looked at other beings. One little Giant saw a connection between each and every one on earth. He saw an invisible thread than ran through everyone´s heart and tied all creatures together to one big “thing”. (The Giant had no word for it. He only really liked being a part of it.)
Unfortunately, the second Giant saw no tie between him and others. No matter how hard he looked, he did not discover anything that he wanted to be related to. Nothing apart himself appeared to be valuable or vulnerable. What good would then be to bond with lives less worthy than his own?