Lethem, Jonathan (story). WALTER MARTIN & PALOMA MUNOZ: Travelers. 96 pages, including 40 color plates. 4to, cloth-backed boards. New York, Aperture Foundation, 2008.
Playing on assumptions of innocence associated with these childhood objects, the artists create unexpectedly sinister and whimsical snow globe enviornments - figures leaping from craggy cliffs into frigid waters adorn the cover - then photograph them. The text, a short story, is so incomprehensible that the snow globes seem straightforward in comparison.