Project Description

Cover proposal for Vladimir Nabokov’s classic Lolita. Winner of the City of Rotterdam’s Drempelprijs 2006. As polemic as the original novel itself, the illustration represents in a subliminal erotic image the fine delicacy and at the same time dangerous attraction of a young girl trough the symbolic use of a blooming rose, sharp thorns and silk. An analogy to the mixed critics of its first publication that proposed it to be one of the best novels out there, others though it was just dirty porn.