Art, Symbol & Imagination
Ylophobia: the towering forest
Huge dark tree trunks crowd the picture while small pale figures climb, fall and run between them. Vassos makes the forest seem both monumental and unstable by varying the scale and direction of its branches. The supplied source captions the image Ylophobia.
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John Vassos. "Ylophobia: the towering forest" [editorial title]. In Phobia, John Vassos. Selected illustrations, undated edition. Source scan leaf 7. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0678-0007
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John Vassos. Ylophobia: the towering forest. Phobia. Scan leaf 7. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0678-0007