Dreaming it forward / Aaron Sinift, Kahakashan Khan, Jitendra Kumar, Vijay Kumar Handa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinift, Aaron, book artist.

Contributor:

Khan, Kahkashan, contributor.

Kumar, Jitendra, contributor.

Handa, Vijay Kumar, contributor.

Niketan, Chinmoyee Kala, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture in art.

Agricultural laborers--India.

Agricultural laborers.

Khadi.

Artists' books--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Genre:

artists' books (books)

Artists' books.

Cloth printings.

Physical Description:

46 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm + 1 booklet (18 cm)

Place of Publication:

[New York?] : Aaron Sinift, 2023.

Summary:

"Dreaming It Forward is the third and final book of the 5 Year Plan Project begun in 2009. The book's focus is organic cotton farmers and the handloom khadi cloth created by Gandhian ashrams in India today. The khadi was made from one metric ton of organic cotton commissioned from two small farm families in Umri village, Maharashtra, India at the very beginning of their planting season in July 2021 ... The project is a collaboration of Aaron Sinift in the US with Kahakashan Khan & Jitendra Kumar in India, and Mr. Vijay Kumar Handa, an elder at the Gandhi Hindustani Sahitya Sabha, in New Delhi. It is a fusion of women's, Muslim, Dalit, Gandhian, farmer, and transgender voices to create a living portrait of India through the lens of cotton, labor, and khadi. Twelve Gandhian service organizations throughout India created the book by hand using traditional means to create a swadeshi artifact consistent with Gandhi's vision. Just spinning the thread took approx. 100 people about 6000 days of work"--Dealer's website. https://booklyn.org/catalog/dreaming-it-forward/

Notes:

Limited edition of 180 copies.

Statement of responsibility from dealer's website.

OCLC:

1425496607