Pankisi Prayer Rug / Clifton Meador

Identifier:FA.B100.1640

Dimensions:28 x 33 x 5 cm

Creation dates:2014

Subjects: artists' books, chromolithography, photography, poetry, prayer rugs

Description:The book is published in an edition of 30 copies by DeMerritt Pauwels Editions. Each book is hand-sewn with six colors of thread and bound in a Bradel binding with slate antique English buckram. The book is wrapped in a chiaroscuro felt print (produced at Magnolia Editions) and housed in a custom pull-off box. All binding work and design was executed at DeMerritt | Pauwels Editions in Emeryville, CA. 2014. This is #10 in an edition of 100. Pankisi Prayer Rug was printed by Clifton Meador at the Center for Book and Paper at Columbia College, Chicago during the Spring of 2014, on a one color Heidelberg press. The color palette of Pankisi Prayer Rug is based on the blues and grays of a winter afternoon in the Caucasus Mountains in the Republic of Georgia. Images are printed in six non-process colors- including a fluorescent red- in an effort to recreate chromolithography as a contemporary practice.