Garden encircled by jade

Abstract

'During the late Ming period, Wang Tingna (1577-1625) commissioned a scroll woodblock print of his 'Garden Encircled by Jade'. In 1981 the Chinese Peoples' Fine Arts Publishing house produced 500 double-boxed albums, dividing the woodblock into 45 plates. In Hong Kong in 2003 I purchased one of the albums. Back in the United States, as I viewed the pages stained by foxing, I thought 'I could relive my life, well parts of it at least, in that Jade Garden!' In 2023 I placed myself and the decades of my life inside the Jade Garden'--from artist's statement. 45 leaves (accordion fold) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 37 cm, in box 31 x 40 cm