In 1984 Suzanne H Visser spent four months making washi paper in silence at a Zen monastery in Japan, and left with a thousand sheets she would carry around the world. Ode to the Desert tells what became of them: her father’s bistre, a brown ink burned from walnut husks, which she learned to fire in clay ovens in four colours; years of life drawing wherever she lived; and the old drawings she dyed and tore into the shapes of ranges, riverbeds and sky to make the four Japanese-style screens of Ode to the Desert: The Dry, Fire, Wildflower Season and Night.
Illustrated with 13 colour images, it accompanies the Ode to the Desert exhibition at the Maryborough Art Society in March 2027.
Ode to the Desert by Suzanne Visser eBook
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