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Sunandini Banerjee is an editor, translator, book designer and graphic artist based in Calcutta, India. She has illustrated Thomas Bernhard???sVictor Halfwit (2011), Ivan Vladislavic???s Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories (2012) and Diane Meur???s In Dreams (2013), all published by Seagull Books. Her artworks have been exhibited in Calcutta, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Cologne and Shanghai.

About Thieving Magpie

So the magpie adorns its nest with everything it finds, no matter how nondescript. It likes to pull out everything that glitters, not caring much whether it’s paste or diamond.

You do know what I mean.

What I’m trying to say is this:

What you have before you is a capriccio, a quodlibet, a potpourri, or rather a mixtum compositum, or plain and simple a general brouillon.

Do I make myself clear?

I mean a hodgepodge, a maremagno, a salmagundi.

In other words: this is probably an olla podrida, a Kudelmuddel, a Sammelsurium or a ragout. Of course, I could also talk of a macédoine, a charivari or a pêle-mêle—no, just a minute, I’ve got it!—it’s a gakkimaufrym a ragbag, a pasticcicciaccio or, damn it, it’s on the tip of my tongue, in a word, it’s a zibaldone, a medley, a farrago, in short, and that’s an end to it, it’s a scrapbook.

Or is that claiming too much? Perhaps it’s no more than a lucky bag. But so that we understand one another, my dears: it’s no different in our brain (the brain is no different), an undisciplined organ, which doesn’t stick to any sequence, manages without a table of contents and knows no chronology.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
German author, poet, translator, and editor. Seagull author.
The opening quotation for Seagull Books’ 2010–11 catalogue.

Sunandini Banerjee, much in the manner of a magpie, collects images from a wide variety of sources and creates digital collages—a potpourri or a medley or a luck bag, call it what you will—and book covers for a range of titles and texts published by Seagull Books. Created for the annual Seagull Books catalogue, these collages are in the nature of contemporary miniatures and reflect the global nature of both the artist’s imagination and the range of literature she works upon for each catalogue. A self-taught artist, Sunandini has used photographs, paintings, sculpture, woodcuts, line-drawings and text to create these unique artworks that explore the many layers of communication between the word and the image.

Sunandini Banerjee is an editor, translator, book designer and graphic artist based in Calcutta, India. She has illustrated Thomas Bernhard’sVictor Halfwit (2011), Ivan Vladislavic’s Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories (2012) and Diane Meur’s In Dreams (2013), all published by Seagull Books. Her artworks have been exhibited in Calcutta, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Cologne and Shanghai.