Today

Daniel Fehr & Simone Rea

Two brothers wait for their father to come back from a journey. It’s a long wait. The younger brother tells us, in diary form, about their days. About the older brother reading books to him who can’t yet read, about their secret missions and fantasies, but also about the brother leaving to play football, the jealousy between them, the fights, and the solitude.

Simone Rea made the images of this book between March and April 2020, day and night, during a period of lockdown. A window, always the same but each time with different, unexpected objects lying on its sill, reflects the stories of those who live there and at the same time perfectly portrays the longing and the monotony of the wait.

Time is made of thoughts, of relations with others, of discoveries, of life, but it can also be fluid and difficult to measure.

Daniel Fehr is educated at the Zurich University of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He writes picture books and designs board games. Among his books published by Orecchio Acerbo:
How To Read a Book? (2018)
How to Get out of Here, and if Yes When? (2019)
Waiting for Walt (2020)

Simone Rea has studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. His work has been selected for the Bologna
Illustrators Exhibition twice, and he was awarded a BIB Plaque at the
Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava.