In this beautifully illustrated book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that span his artistic output from 1978 to 2002. Over 50 full-color reproductions are featured.

This long awaited second publication by the highly recognized film actor and artist/poet, Viggo Mortensen melds his acutely sensitive ability to intertwine words, paintings and photography into one lyrical conceptual landscape. Working like a personal diary, SignLanguage, takes us on a visual journey into the soul of Mortensen's creative forces. His diary-based photographs, taken while filming 'The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings' become dream-like landscapes shrouded in mystery and suspense while his multi-layered paintings entwine themselves around stanzas of poetry. The melding of all three forces allows the reader to become acutely aware of the details surrounding the artists existence, a multiple of split-second images burned into the mind of a thousand different places.
SignLanguage exquisitely features extensive color and black and white reproductions of both his photographic works and his intensely personal collage based paintings, partly intertwined in an informative essay by international critic and poet, Kevin Power. Special highlights also include unique photographs by Mortensen while on location during the filming of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'.

　　他的镜头是打开的心眼，在最细微处直视灵魂，看到巴西巨坑五万掏金者的集体面相，看到科威特油井冲天大火的真正英雄，看到非洲的死亡延续着生存。每次的拍摄方案都是经年的万里长征，是人神共舞，每次成果都引起巨大回响。合导的儿子伴着老爸远征，只见他用海象的视角，拍出但丁的地狱。再来到地球重病的现在，他重建了一座森林。云温达斯最心仪的传奇摄影师萨尔加多，就是大地之盐。获康城影展某种观点评审团特别奖，入围角逐奥斯卡最佳纪录片。