More Than Less

More Than Less is a collection of 44 summer poems and prose by Etienne Lopa, talking love, distance and travel, illustrated with 65 iPhone photographs, written and taken all throughout August of 2021. The concept for the book was crafted on a monthlong solitaire roadtrip along the Mediterranean.

It tells the story of an artist in the contemporary world escaping the chaos of the system of the mainstream and the expectations of the internet, and finding an infinite source of peace on the road, in the music, and by the sea.

Just for a moment. More Than Less explores themes of a long term relationship, of quick and frivolous summer encounters and of a voyage into the sun and the depths of oneself.

It's the manifesto of a modern state of mind and a modern take on long term love, towards another and towards life.

The contents of the book are raw, descriptive, intimate and perfectly imperfect.

With the help of details that seem futile, yet are crucial to the ways in which the poems flirt with both reality and fantasy, Etienne Lopa's particular writing style transports the reader into utterly precise moments in the narrator's life. In a work so complete and multidisciplinary, the rhymes start to become an accessory and nothing more than a cordiality: More Than Less is all at once a photo-novel, a travel diary, a poetry book and the simplest eye pleasing table book.