Metaphors do more than describe the way we see the world. They shape how we understand it and how we remember it. As Benedict Anderson writes:

"Our memories are often, or perhaps always, metaphors: we have a particular picture in our minds of a house in our childhood which stands for many years of experience of family life; we sum up the dead in certain intense images from the past."

If our memories are built through metaphor, then perhaps they are also shadows. They are not perfect reflections of the past but fragments shaped by time, emotion, and personal experience. Like shadows, memories shift depending on where we stand, revealing some details while obscuring others.

This project explores the relationship between memory, metaphor, and shadow through the idea of a nursery book for adults. Borrowing the familiar visual language of children's books, it reimagines stories and imagery to reflect adult experiences, inviting readers to revisit themes of memory, loss, identity, and imagination from a new perspective.