By Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker

“I drew a bookshelf, and the lines made me think of the streets of a map,” Luci Gutiérrez says, about her cover for last week’s New Yorker issue. Another inspiration for her image: Wunderkammern, the cabinets of curiosities created in the Renaissance to display collections of extraordinary objects.

“I don’t have this particular piece of furniture, but I wish I did. I keep strange and pretty objects,” Gutiérrez says. “It can be a chocolate paper wrapper or a Japanese mask. . . . they provide me with a way to remember the place they come from.”

Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.

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