The Echo of an Island

Content : This beautiful book makes readers understand the journey of the artist who discovered in 2019 that she has Asperger's autism. Readers will comprehend how an artist - who feels different since childhood - learns to know herself better by discovering her diagnosis of autism. This diagnosis made after months of tests and investigations is embodied by the meeting of an artist and an island, because a form of alchemy has operated.
Her short and sharp texts make the language sing: the words snap like the wind on this arid and volcanic land.
To accompany her story, Delphine Priollaud-Stoclet paints. Canvases, sketchbooks where - like an obsession - views of volcanoes accumulate, repetitive and almost similar, except for the time, the light, the season, the journey that sets them apart.
"My texts and drawings evoke sensations, perceptions, obsessions by establishing a parallel between autism and my vision of Lanzarote.“

Delphine Priollaud-Stoclet received the Michel Renaud Award - 1st prize for writing - at the Clermont-Ferrand Travel Diary Encounters in 2018 for the title Sanpo City published by Akinomé. She also received this award in 2022 for this book about Asperger autism (even before its publication!).