The Golden Temple Mail to Bharatpur
By Susan Allix
2001. Edition of 25.
A limited edition of 25 copies. Copy I has paintings, numbers 2 to 15 have original etchings based on the paintings, numbers xvi to xxv have reproductions made from the etchings or paintings. This is copy xxiii. Signed by Allix.
Six Indian vignettes with six Allix images. This version is a (relatively) affordable and (more than) satisfactory substitute for the more elaborate versions.
Susan Allix: "The binding began with the railway timetable; and the railway timetable appeared because the road was terrible. The man reading it said, "You could take the Golden Temple Mail to Bharatpur".
"It was one of those moments that cause a slight shiver, a premonition that something was going to happen. The words went round and round in my head, and were still with me as I stood on the station platform. The Golden Temple Mail, a fairly ordinary Indian train, drew in, scattering some families of pigs from the tracks. To my disappointment there was only one man in my carriage and the journey stretched uneventfully ahead. Then the man began to talk, recounting a variety of strange and mystical stories, one of which was the starting point of the book.
"So the book became a collection of six Indian encounters accompanied by six coloured etchings. …"
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