Bookcover for John Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’ written in 1952. With strong biblical references to the story of Cain and Abel, the cover aims to portray the duality of good and evil through the two origami subjects (snake and rabbit).

(student concept work)

‘I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?’

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden