Elephant Chronicles
 Elephant Chroniclesby Marilyn StableinElephant Chronicles features 40 full color reproductions of original collages by Marilyn Stablein. The book is hand-stitched and printed in a numbered edition limited to 150 copies by Redfoxpress, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Marilyn is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, publisher and world traveler. On the road at eighteen, inspired by beat writers Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger’s travels in India, in 1966 she hitchhiked overland to Nepal and India where she studied Tibetan poetics, tantra, painting, Tibetan calligraphy and Asian book arts for seven years. Her large elephant clipping file consists of dozens of elephant themed stories, images and ephemera including an eclectic mix of elephant news, elephant births, travels, obits, and vintage ads that use elephant imagery to sell everything from car mufflers, to shampoo, salt, matches and fine chocolate.  7″x10.5″; acid free card stock, India train wreck kills 6 elephants clipping, Santa Fe RR vintage ephemera and scraps, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Sadly some articles concern elephant hardships, casualties, killings and massacres that threaten the species today. Her elephant collages are a creative mix of elephant lore and scraps of decorative, handmade papers and ephemera from her collection of international papers. The artist is a prize-winning author of eighteen books including some featuring her India travel drawings, paintings and photographs: Houseboat on the Ganges and A Room in Kathmandu; Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir and The Census Taker: Stories of A Traveler in India and Nepal. She collaborates with international artists and publishers. Under her publishing imprint, Book Arts Editions, she publishes collectible artist books printed in Kathmandu, Nepal on indigenous lokta paper and other works. ABOUT THE BOOK Purchase the book on ETSY. |