Emperors Of Ice Cream forest the cover is made with

the cover is made with letterpress

Horst Hahn

Berlin 2004

The collected images of Erik Kessels react in a thoughtful and playful way to the animals in the museum

text in Dutch and German

Emperors Of Ice Cream forest the cover is made withink drawings of fantastical figures balancing colourful ice cream cones, inspired by The Emperor of Ice Cream, a poem by Wallace Stevens, The black ink drawings included here allude to such characters as manifested in a series of peculiar emperors, each grounded by the white of the page, the starkness of winter. Be they dead or alive, many of these emperors are busy trying to get somewhere, while others seem utterly content or confused where they