A safe place is someone else's promise.The Black Laurel's protected places bind hosts and guests through guarantees of shelter. Behind every refuge are people with loyalties and obligations of their own. Trust needs someone willing to answer for it.
The Black Laurel's network includes protected places where shelter depends on guarantees between people. Those who offer refuge and those who accept it enter relationships with obligations on both sides. A sanctuary's security rests on the loyalties of the people responsible for honoring that promise, each with responsibilities of their own. Protection is therefore a continuing human duty, carried by the network behind the place itself.
A safe place is someone else's promise.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
02SanctuaryOri Refael Peretz
Visible hospitality. Hidden protection.
The Platinum Mariner Club belongs to the series’ meeting of public hospitality and private obligation.
A safe place is someone else's promise.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
03SanctuaryOri Refael Peretz
Protection depends on people.
Sanctuary considers the relationships that give a protected place its meaning. Its individual narrative remains in development.
A safe place is someone else's promise.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
The catalogueA safe place is someone else's promise.Series installment concept
The Black Laurel
The places behind the promises
Sanctuary is a working installment title within The Black Laurel, connected in development to the institution’s network of protected places. Those places give physical form to the Laurel’s promises: protection depends on people, locations and the relationships that hold them together.
The series places visible hospitality beside hidden protection. The Platinum Mariner Club is one expression of that relationship. Sanctuary’s individual story and place in the sequence remain to be developed within this wider institutional world.
Within the wider series
A place within the Laurel.
Sanctuary is a developing fiction project within The Black Laurel. Its protected places belong to the series’ wider world of institutions, promises and obligations.
Detail from the cover concept
The visual identity
A threshold into the Laurel.
The cover concept for Sanctuary. Explore the complete artwork at a larger size.
