Contains two accordion folded panels of the paintings and sketches printed on Somerset Photo Enhanced Velvet 100% rag paper plus an accordion folded booklet of journal notes and images that are printed letterpress on handmade Bhutanese daphne paper, that was printed at Lumino Press, Santa Barbara, California. Mary Heebner: "When sketching among the ruins at Ayutthaya, Thailand in August, 2002, I used watercolor and graphite to make pictures on both sides of two 30" long x 5" high sheets of folded paper. I reproduced these two-sided sketches with an Epson 7600 printer, using archival ink pigments. After printing, I drew and painted with graphite and acrylic on each of the prints in the edition. This book is a meditation about creativity and destruction, balance and imblance, peace and war, as represented by the rose colored paintings of figures seated in lotus position and the drawings of the severely damaged bodhisattva statues at Ayutthaya, also seated in lotus position." Fifty headless bodhisattvas seated in lotus position became the models for a series of sketches, photographs, and this book, Full Lotus. |
