Future Without Spring

Illustration: Kerstin Marie Backes
Text: Sarah Knausenberger

Future Without Spring

Book design: Viktoria Napp

The world has changed dramatically. Nature is going to waste, life is fading, all colors have disappeared. Some are desperately looking for a way out but feel helpless in the face of the advancing catastrophe. Others have already lost hope and fallen into melancholy.

Ben has one last place where time seems to have stopped, and where he feels safe: his grandma’s room. There, between the seedlings she unwaveringly takes care of, he finds strength and confidence. Until one day, his grandma begins to die.

When employees of a company that specializes in freezing human bodies enter the house to preserve his grandma’s genes for future generations, Ben’s courage is put to the test. Determined to stop them, he does everything he can to thwart the company’s plans.

In a world that has lost its natural habitats, a boy and his grandma fight for what people only tend to start missing once it’s gone: the beauty of nature and the hope for a future.

Kerstin Marie Backes:
This special text by Sarah juxtaposes two different worlds:
While in one of them, feelings and nature gradually keep losing their place, in the other, these elements retain an important position.
Using two different color palettes, I have tried to give each world its own distinct look. Fiction and reality should still act and function alongside each other. Apart from pencil and charcoal drawings, I have also used digital coloring and collage art techniques.

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