Cave Things, The Little Thing Is Sad Book
Children's book written and illustrated by Nick Cave.
These collectible hardcover books were printed for Cave Things by the monks at Denmark's Narayana Press. Every purchase includes a download of the talking book, read and soundtracked by Nick Cave.
Dimensions: 160 x 160 mm (hardcover)
Age: 3-5 years
32 pages
Cave Things sells playful, mysterious, subversive things that are designed, drawn, written or recorded by Nick Cave. It’s a home for books and recordings that sit in a place entirely of their own.
From Nick Cave:
I am essentially a songwriter. Yet, people who understand my stuff know that it doesn’t end there. There has always been a strong, even obsessive, visual component to the process of songwriting—a compulsive rendering of the lyric as a thing to be seen, to be touched, to be examined. I have always done this—basically drawn my songs—for as long as I’ve been writing them. Cave Things are the incidental residue of an over-stimulated mind—situated beyond merchandise but before art.
When the pressure of songwriting gets too much, well, I draw a cute animal or a naked woman or a religious icon or a mythological creature or something. Or I take a Polaroid, or make something out of clay. I do a collage, or write a child’s poem and date stamp and sticker it, or do some granny-art with a set of watercolour paints. The result—Cave Things.