This altered edition of How Sleep the Brave reshapes a wartime narrative into a sculptural meditation on perspective and distance. By carving directly into the book’s illustrated cover, the work exposes progressive layers beneath the image of the pilot, turning the flat graphic into a relief that echoes both depth and vulnerability. The planes—once simple printed silhouettes—become openings, voids that cut through the page, transforming symbols of force into fragile outlines suspended in space.

The intervention preserves the original visual language intact, using subtraction rather than addition to shift the book’s tone. The carved shapes create a tension between the bold, heroic aesthetic of the cover and the hollowed spaces that now interrupt it. The result is a softened, more ambiguous reading—one where absence becomes part of the story, and the solid imagery of war is reinterpreted through delicacy and rupture.