Laputa III. Kingdom of the Absurd by Jonathan Swift 1977

Oleksandr Aksinin's 1977 *Laputa III. Kingdom of the Absurd* is a circular print evoking a celestial sphere. The artist utilized a fine stippling technique to create a textured surface, reminiscent of a starry sky, with a thin band of text inscribed around the edge, a visual representation of the floating island of Laputa from Jonathan Swift’s *Gulliver’s Travels*. This work is characteristic of Aksinin's graphic style, which often employs geometric shapes and dense visual textures to explore philosophical concepts of reality and human perception.