What is this cover supposed to signify? It looks like a dungeon map for Skyrim

What is this cover supposed to signify? It looks like a dungeon map for Skyrim.

Please delete this. It's kind of embarrassingly obvious and you'll only end up looking more retarded the longer this stays up.

doistoioivskoi was a big minecraft fan

thats why he asked the publisher to put this as the cover but he asked in russian

The black isn't that black. Now look at it again

If its so obvious, what is it?

It spells a word if you can recognize the pattern.

linear af

see

Groot?

gook?

8bit rorschach mask?

>yfw you realize the cost a paperback is largely dictated by the amount of ink used in each unit's production
>paying more for a big black post-modern ink splatter that has no intrinsic or subjective value whatsoever

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>P&V translation

why, yes. it's a map for a dungeon. the book is called "Notes from Underground" after all.

Bump for interest

can someone please explain what the cover is? now I feel dumb, I just thought it was some abstract thing in black and white

That's all it is.

It's a map.

Grm?

It's supposed to represent the labyrinth of the mind.

Of what?

why does the term abstract give postmodern artist license to shitmall over a page? isn't abstract just a term for an immaterial thing? is the genre itself just a callous irony to laugh in the face of others, in so being that they produce a material thing with no meaning, when an abstract is an immaterial thing with meaning?

I thought it looked like an opening/entrance into his underground hole.