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Thousand Year Wu
Author: Original poetry in Ancient Mandarin by M.T. Karthik, art by C.K. Wilde, with relief cast by Eric Weil
Edition: Unique
Year: 2001
Algerian goat leather cover with cast plates. Fabriano cotton wrapped in Seikishu Japanese mulberry, India ink.
This very large (18" x 14") book was "made a thousand years ago." Drawings of forms from Tai-Chi Chuan, Kung-Fu and other disciplines are accompanied by pictographic text elements literally thousands of years old. Cotton paper wrapped in Japanese mulberry gives the appearance of a faded, well-traveled instructional text with an "evident" patina from use. Source material for the graphic elements included the more than 700-year-old Mustard Seed Manual of Painting. The original text consists of variations on the theme of a poem decrying the rational to favor the transcendental or spiritual in engagements. This book was commissioned by the performance artist RZA (Wu-Tang clan) for use in a Kung-Fu film project.
Price: In private collection of RZA
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