Vast landscapes breathe through her choices and the detailed minutiae of fauna and flora with which she populates this world fill it fully. Yet it is Sterte’s art that is the true focus of the experience. The life that forms around and within the rotting corpse struggles for survival and is endlessly immersed in conflict, only to begin the process anew. Ostensibly, Stages of Rot focuses on the body of a dead whale in an alien landscape and the millennia-long process of its decay. In Sterte’s book, narrative is almost secondary to its beauty. Turning through the dense, gorgeous, Moebius-like pages of Stages of Rot displaces the reader, pushing them out of this world into visions of some foreign, yet strangely familiar landscape swimming with a cacophony of images and sounds, thick and opaque, boundless and consummate. Linnea Sterte ’s Stages of Rot from Swedish publishers Peow Studio is a recursive dream told in a muted palette of gestures.
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