This edition, Balloon Trip, was produced in the workshops of the CIEC Foundation in collaboration with the Entretintas engraving workshop in 2024.

This work by Peri Helio transports us to a surrealist-looking setting in which the forest takes centre stage. Various architectural elements, such as a pyramid and a labyrinth, make their way through the trees. Above them, carried by the wind, is a character with cat ears and a tail, sitting on a ‘hot air balloon’. In his hand he carries a staff topped with a lighthouse, a primordial light around which an entire planetary system orbits, moving with him.

Balloon Trip is therefore a work that invites us to let our imagination fly, to enter imaginary worlds in which nature is the protagonist. At the same time, in this work the artist alludes to the creation of new universes through the smoke-universe that emerges from the hood of the intriguing traveller.