Kora
By: Clifton Meador
Publisher: C. Meador
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Wood-engraving, Tibetan; Printing; Religion; Pictorial works
Description: Pictures taken at the Dege Parkhang, a printing temple located in Ganze Autonomous Prefecture in western China, in August of 2006. Pilgrims circumambulating the exterior of the temple, some carrying prayer wheels with their mantras spinning into the ether, are performing kora, an act of devotion and honor to the books housed therein.
Notes: Limited ed. of 50 copies and 10 artist's proofs, signed by Clifton Meador.

"Kora is ritual circumambulation around a site of religious significance, an act of devotion and honor. The pilgrims all walk clockwise around the Parkhang. Only the tourists walk the other way."--Verso of colophon.

"These pictures were taken at the Dege Parkhang, a printing temple located in Ganze Autonomous Prefecture in western China, in August of 2006 ... [P]rinted at the Center for Editions, Purchase College, on Mohawk Superfine. The film and separations were produced at the Center for Book & Paper at Columbia College Chicago ... The figures are line drawings from the photographs, now converted into a font, so the pilgrims have literally turned into language, at least in this book."--Colophon.

Reproductions of photographs of pilgrims, some carrying prayer wheels with their mantras spinning into the ether, are performing kora, an act of devotion and honor to the books housed therein.

Consists of 17 separate double-sided leaves, off-set printed, stacked as in a traditional Tibetan book structure. Cloth covered boards, top and bottom. Screen print in silver of the font Meador developed from his photographs of pilgrims applied to the top board. Title on cloth printed in Meador's font inset into top board. Wrapped in a yellow Tibetan-style cloth and tied with a ribbon.

Rare Book copy: No. 45, signed by the artist.