The story behind

You might be surprised to see a horse among the waves, unless it's one of Neptune's horses. Even more curiously, a late 19th century American fairground attraction, the diving horse, lies behind this design. In this remarkable scene represented with contrasting graphic lines by Gianpaolo Pagni, the horse's head is inspired by an old engraving from the Nancy image library and stands out from the sea foam created with stamps. This produces a sense of discrepancy, a feeling of illusion and fantasy, in a triangle, like a sail…