The book is a message of forgiveness, awareness of one’s own weakness, and life in constant change, both internally and externally.

The book is made up of mascara drawings and text – neither part dominates the other, but acquires its final meaning and intonation in a design combination created by artist Esther Betty Graver. The work invites the reader, or rather the viewer, to become a co-author, forming their own associations between what is seen and what is read. As the author points out: enjoy recommended with a pinch of humor.

“People are like pancakes” develops a new inter-genre, the rhythm of which is determined by the linear sequentiality of the book, while the open narrative is based on associative poetics and the principles of visual art storytelling. Meļķe develops the “new sincerity”, which is currently one of the most topical aesthetic currents in the visual arts and literature. Deliberately unpretentious, almost naïve poeticity in drawings and text, testing the boundaries of psychological openness, Meļķe reflects on human weakness, social norms, invites to consciousness and marks an alternative to the cult of winners.

Marija Luīze Meļķe is one of the brightest artists of the new generation – her debut poetry collection “Club of Unrealized Potentials” was nominated for the Latvian Annual Prize for Literature, while for her role in the film “Neon Spring” directed by Matisse Kaža, Meļķe received the Great Kristaps Award as the best actress in a leading role.