Postcards From Asia

A$400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[San Francisco : the artist, circa 2000]. Quarto, concertina style bound artist s book, papered boards, containing 14 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 25. Created in a small edition with prints made for Hazelwood s Walking up and down in Asia series (2000), with different prints included in each copy. This is copy number 6. In this copy, the prints are : Tug boat, Hong Kong Gardens, Macao Yangtze Xiniang tourist show Kashgar Tibetan Monk Old Pakistani Mosque, SIngapore Back-packer Thailand Tuk tuk, Bangkok Hello pineapple beach vendor, Thailand Waitress Tokyo Tanuki Shrine Salary Man (Tokyo) The artist writes : From 1986 to 1993 I traveled around the world, living in Europe and Asia and in various parts of the States. My primary interest however was traveling in Asia. The intensity of travel lured me on to see more and more. Experiences of people and places left there mark and I have tried to give back some of that feeling. The Tibetan nomads, Vietnamese cyclo drivers, Japanese salary man, Sikhs, Thais, and Uygurs that make up this series are the actors on an impossibly crowded world stage. It is this sometimes overwhelming encounter with the world that these prints seek to express. Prints in this series include images of the following countries China, Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, India, and Pakistan. The production of this entire series makes up a period of 14 years from first trip to bound book, alth

• Binding: Hardcover

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