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Direct contact with nature plays an important role in this little poetic and visual trilogy by two authors, Sanja Lovrenčić and Iva Valentić. Each in her own way, they experience the green worlds – even if those worlds are small, squeezed between concrete and asphalt – as spaces for a silence that is a departure from everyday reality and a prerequisite for creative work. The Silence of Green was originally the title of a series of the authors’ eleven handwritten art books. Connecting the domain of words and the domain of images, they spent several months dealing with urban greenery, transferring the imprints of fragility, diversity, and vitality of urban plants into their hybrid medium. Growing out of this greenery and returning to it again, as a reflection of the life cycle of the plant world, are the calm, contemplative, and questioning verses of Sanja Lovrenčić, as well as the organically flowing illustrations in ink and stamps by Iva Valentić. The authors collected sketches and notes that were made during the period of work on the manuscript books, supplemented them and prepared them for this edition. The trilogy The Silence of Green consists of the volumes Clear Images, Excerpts from a Personal Chronicle and The Silence of Green: The City, all together in a wonderful paper box. It was designed and produced as a bibliophile edition.