title: Ashes and Snow
titlecomplete: Ashes and Snow
description: The literary revelation of source and title to the exhibition, Ashes and Snow, by artist and author Gregory Colbert. Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters is the fictional account of a man who, over the course of a yearlong international journey, composes 365 letters to his wife. The interior pages, filled with typewritten journal entries to his wife, are printed on custom printed Italian deckle-edged paper and fastened with a sewn-binding. The cover of the novel is made from dark brown Nepalese paper coated with beeswax, bound by two matching thin-waxed chords. A sliver of natural bamboo defines the exterior flap. There are no photographic images in the novel.
genres: Photography
publisher: Flying Elephants Press
ratings_count: 23
num_pages: 184
language: English