A bonsai-shaped mind & postures of the heart. Engravings Richard Wagener

Keane, Marc Peter

Published by Mixolydian Editions & Nawakum Press, Petaluma, 2024

About this Item

Edition limited to 82 copies, this one of the 20 special Engraver's Edition (this, copy no. V), signed by both the artist and the author in a full leather goatskin binding with pictorial onlay, 8 end-grain boxwood engravings by Wagener on Japanese gampi paper, with other illustrations in the text, and with an extra suite of 5 bonsai tree prints (9¾" x 10½") and one unique print which is not included in the book; contained in a folding box of red and black Japanese book cloth. Original 8-page [prospectus laid in. The edition is a collaboration between Richard Wagener, award-winning master wood engraver and fine press publisher from Petaluma, California, David Pascoe of the award-winning Nawakum Press in Gig Harbor, Washington, and Marc Peter Keane, artist, Japanese garden designer and author of fiction and non-fiction from Kyoto, Japan. The first section of the book consists of a series of five short essays on bonsai from the internationally known author and artist, Marc Peter Keane, living in Kyoto, Japan. These essays address bonsai culture, the awe-inspiring yet humble nature of the art form, and the foresight required to work within its realm. For the author bonsai is a living art; it is the art of shepherding; it is the art of inheritance . In the second section of the book is an intricately crafted short story in nine parts . The story takes place over a five-hundred-year period . Three owners of the bonsai, and their circumstances while shepherding the tree, are portrayed. Seller Inventory # 66365

Bibliographic Details

Title: A bonsai-shaped mind & postures of the heart...

Publisher: Mixolydian Editions & Nawakum Press, Petaluma

Publication Date: 2024

Binding: Hardcover