I am Nijinsky.

Here are a couple of pages from a book I made called "I am Nijinsky". It was taken from Nijinsky's diary which begins with his childhood and follows his transition into schizophrenia. I read the whole diary then wrote my short story in the spirit to fit it into 10 pages. However, the last page was a direct excerpt from his diary. Each page represents two years of his dancing career (which lasted 20 years from school to his last performance). The images were created by a printmaking method using oil of wintergreen. With each illustration I tried to depict his schizophrenia progression. Click the images to be able to read them.

The intro:

8th page:

Last page: