Kandze Village Bodhisattva

front cover of the artists book Kandze Village Bodhisattva
z-fold of the artists book Kandze Village Bodhisattva unfolded

Title

Kandze Village Bodhisattva

Subject

Studio Arts, International Studies, Creative Writing

Description

Title from dust jacket cover. Printed and produced by the author at the Center for Book and Paper, Columbia College Chicago. "The book unfolds to two page-sized flaps. Inside the left flap is bound Nine Iterations, a 13-page booklet. The booklet's first spread has an arrangement (abstract? a pattern?) of numbers and page numbers (e.g. page 14 is above the number 6). The succeeding pages detail nine parts of a narrative, gradually accumulating detail and meaning with each telling. In the text some words are given numbers (something is 1, bridge is 2 ...). Nested within the right flap is a book of photographs, delicate grays with green and yellow overtones. These photographs depict the narrative recounted in the booklet, Nine Iterations, each photo showing a portion of that narrative. Certain things in the photographs are labeled by numbers. These numbers correspond to the numbers in the booklet narrative. By working back and forth between the text and the images and using the key provided in the arrangement in the first spread of the booklet, one can understand that each iteration (be it by word or by image) is a partial representation of the whole experience"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website. "This is one of three books that is based on work I did in Ganze Autonomous Prefecture. I was there as part of an interdisciplinary research team, documenting traditional Tibetan book culture, and much of the information we collected has never been published. I spent part of this summer [2012] printing these books that explore ideas of iteration and repetition that are connected to the practice of traditional Tibetan book production"--Artist's statement

Creator

Meador, Clifton

Publisher

C. Meador

Date

2012

Format

13, [36] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm

Language

English

Barcode

35108007278518

Location and Call Number

DEN Spec Coll N7433.4.M43 .K36 2012

Collection

Citation

Meador, Clifton, “Kandze Village Bodhisattva,” Digital Exhibits | Denison University Archives & Special Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://exhibits.denisonarchives.org/items/show/212.