Bananagrams: Multi-Award-Winning Word Game

"Nature is the source of the arts," explains the talented lipikorn makaew. Here he portrays a banana tree, its gold tones contrasting elegantly against the dark background. In thailand, the banana serves innumerable functions; its fruit is eaten, its leaves are used to wrap food and make baskets, and its trunk can be chopped up and fed to the pigs. There also exists a sacred banana called the kluay tanee. It is believed that female ghosts haunt the trunk of the kluay tanee, and this kind of banana should not be eaten. If a man wishes to see a beautiful ghost woman, he must worship the tree for one to three months, flirting with it as if it were the woman he loved. Then the ghost will transform into a beautiful young woman and become his wife in seven days. The artist first etches the composition onto slate, before applying gold foil using a fig tree rubber solution. Finally he scratches around the image using a slate pencil, suggesting a kind of aura. A captivating accent for any collection. Arrives framed in rain tree wood. Novica, in association with national geographic, searches the world to work directly with the finest artisan designers.