Sudden Flowers
by Eric Gottesman with Sudden Flowers
Published by Fishbar
Edit: Eric Gottesman, Philipp Ebeling, Olivia Arthur
Design: Melanie Mues
144 Pages
28 cm x 22.7 cm (11 in x 8.9 in)
Edition: 1000 (1st 100 signed and numbered; all books come with a unique envelope, handmade and decorated by the members of Sudden Flowers; there is also a special edition of 50)
Printing: Offset (CMYK and duotone) printed at Optimal in Germany
Price: 38 Euros + shipping
"Since 1999, American artist Eric Gottesman’s ongoing collaboration with Sudden Flowers, a collective of children living in Addis Ababa, has produced a body of work of profound depth and poetic lightness. In re-imagining the harsh realities the children experienced on the streets and in their homes in the wake of their parents’ deaths – including the trauma of grief, physical abuse and AIDS-related stigma – the young collective and Gottesman probed the possibilities of image making as a tool for self-expression, healing and teaching others."
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