About the Book
“Boys II Men” was conceived during the football (soccer) World Cup, 2022, inspired by the journeys that shaped the men who represented their countries in the marquee global tournament. Men, who once were, and perhaps always will be — boys.
In what started as an intensely personal and experimental endeavour to find myself, I found a voice and an experience that I wanted to share — a dialogue that I wanted to engage in with you. It is a voice that speaks not just to sports fans, artists, technologists, thinkers… but more universally, to us as humans.
Educated and inspired by the stories of the 32 footballers featured within, this book uses a prism of introspection and curiosity to examine the intersection of past & present, of art & technology, of imagination & facts, of sports & philosophy. As fan-art, this book is an outright celebration of its champions. As the outpouring of a man staring down the second half of his life — it is an attempt to rediscover childhood, it is a message from a father to his daughter, and it is perhaps even a note to self. As the work-product of an Engineer turned Designer — it is an exercise in balancing the left and right sides of our brains (with a bit of satire and commentary on the unprecedented times we live in). As an artefact — it is a map of a journey, has a life of its own, and tells the story of its own existence.
