Synopsis

Welcome to the world of monsters!

In this book, you will meet 12 creatures whose roots go back a long time. Some of them are more than 2000 years old. Back then, monsters were a natural part of our reality. They gave us a language and helped us to understand some of the emotions that dominated our everyday life.

Feelings like anger, fear, sorrow and glee are all real, even the uncomfortable ones. And space should be given to all of them, as it allows us to show how we really feel.

Even if most of us don’t believe in vampires and dragons nowadays, we still create monsters when we don’t talk about our feelings. Then we create inner monsters. When we are hiding things, monster-large emotions develop in us and between people – just like in the old days.

If we are honest and talk about our emotions, they are easier to understand and accept and the chance of us being able to let go of them increases.

Meet Mare – the monster of fear, Blemmya – the monster of sadness, Basilisk – the monster of insecurity and Krake – the monster of love.

This book is based on an exhibition – Monsters: Nasty Creatures with Big Emotions - which took place in the ruins underneath Christiansborg.