A Bonsai-Shaped Mind and Postures of the Heart.

Item Details

Petaluma, California and Gig Harbor, Washington, Mixolydian Editions and Nawakum Press, 2024, Cloth and boards

First edition, slipcase edition, one of 30 copies., As new.

9 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. Eleven wood engravings by Richard Wagener. Center-spread featuring four-color letterpress printing by Rebecca Chamlee. Text printed by Joel Benson.

Paste-paper boards with green silk spine. Two tone beige and green cloth slip case with letterpress label. Original prospectus laid in. A fine copy.

One of thirty “slipcase edition” copies out of a total edition of 82 copies.

This project is the fourth collaboration between Mixolydian Editions and Nawakum Press. The first section is titled “A Bonsai-Shaped Mind” and includes five short essays on bonsai from Marc Peter Keane. Keane describes bonsai as a living art which fosters connections between the artist and the natural world. The second section, “Postures of the Heart,” consists of a short story in nine parts, which follows a bonsai tree over five hundred years. Richard Wagener’s engravings appear throughout, inspired by bonsai he observed during his time at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Washington state.

Richard Wagener (b. 1944) is a California book artist who specializes in fine wood engraving. His work is held in Special Collections of over one hundred fifty libraries around the world. Wagener has collected several accolades for his work including the 2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. Through his imprint, Mixolydian Editions, Wagner now publishes his own fine press editions.

Marc Peter Keane (b. 1958) is a landscape architect and designer, artist, and author of books about Japanese gardens. He currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. His work is based on Japanese aesthetics of simplicity and serendipity.

Rebecca Chamlee is the proprietor of Pie in the Sky Press and an associate professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She is an award-winning printer and illustrator who focuses primarily on the natural world.

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