Dear God, [2005 LIMITED EDITION - RARE 7 VOLUMES HOUSED IN CLOTH BOX - FINE

Desai, Amit

Published by Stephen Cheng, Hong Kong, 2012

About this Item

Hong Kong: 2013. Boxed set of 7 individual books of differing sizes. First Edition, First Printing. DEAR GOD is the second major work in a trilogy about America. After Hurricane Katrina Amit Desai departed from New Orleans and spent ten years traveling throughout America, a journey that would ultimately produce DEAR GOD. BOOK CONDITION: Fine/As New (the set); housed in a black cloth box showing light wear and rubbing with hints of soiling to the box and the cloth gatefold/flaps inside box covering the 7 books. DEAR GOD began in 2005, after one of the deadliest storms in the history of the United States, Hurricane Katrina, devastated the Gulf Coast killing thousands and leaving many more homeless. Amit was down in New Orleans at the time working on his first body of work America Sutra. It was there in a flooded church that Amit found the first collection of photographs in the DEAR GOD series. From these photographs he made Paper Trail and began this body of work that combines seven original prayers with lost photographs found by Amit during his ten year road trip across America. This body of work was made during a period of intense spiritual crisis in the artistâ??s life and each book in DEAR GOD represents a journey from the darkness to the light. The techniques used by Amit to bring his words and the images he found together was part of an experimental process he had developed over many years of making art out of collected scraps and writing in his journals which he called Dumpster Diaries.This project was completed in 2012 and was produced and published by Stephen Cheng. This boxed set of DEAR GOD was designed with the care and craftsmanship of European medieval illuminated manuscripts, stamped and bound in black leather with gilt edging and produced by the German printing firm Karl Grammlich GmbH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear God, [2005 LIMITED EDITION - RARE 7 VOLUMES HOUSED IN CLOTH BOX - FINE
• Publisher: Stephen Cheng, Hong Kong
• Publication Date: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Art