This book is a moving homage to the work of the Swiss artist Jörg Binz — a selection from a multitude of paintings, above all portraits, and his secretly kept sketchbooks. It contains the surprising, the bizarre and the sublime. Interspersed are literary and biographical texts that open a dialogue with the pictures. The book opens with Binz's own account of his youth as a wayward art student in Lucerne, summoned to the director's office expecting expulsion, only to have his portfolio unexpectedly praised as “sensational” before being sent back to class.