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Prayer Book - Red Book 1
Symmetry / Simmetrie

Item date(s): n.d.

Majak Bredell


Pages: unpaged (28pp)
Size: 170 x 250mm closed
Binding: Concertina binding
Technique: Soft-ground etching
Language: English; Afrikaans
Edition: Unique

Type: Accordion fold

Publisher: The artist

Reference note:
Heidi Kyle style accordion spine attached to front cover and back cover. 20 soft-ground etchings with one inscribed bilingual poem by the artist

There are 3 red books.

Each unique edition book contains the same sequence of 20 soft-ground etchings, yet

each contains an inscribed prayer/poem by the artist spoken in two tongues that is unique

to that book.

The specific colour red and the style of the bindings and end-papers are also

unique to each book.

Ref: DP/12023











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