Pulled from the tattered pages of an obscure 16th-century volume known as Pantagruel’s Dreams, these curious woodcuts once adorned the margins of satire and surrealism. Their original meanings were never clearly explained—left to ferment in the imaginations of viewers for centuries.

Fox & Thistle Studio has reawakened each image with a fragment of forgotten language—warnings and musings drawn from the deep wells of collective memory. The result is a nod to the absurd, the cryptic, and the ambiguously familiar dilemma.