Mikhail Karasik

Пространные размышления об аскетизм

Diffuse ruminations on asceticism

St. Petersburg 1995

355 x 257 mm

Diffuse ruminations on asceticism, a chronicle of

Karasik’s journeys through central Asia in the 1980s,

was printed in a 20 copy edition. It combines the artist’s thoughts with his diary entries by printing the respective texts in either yellow or violet on white paper. To these he has added. In excerpts in typed print from Iuzhakov’s Large Encyclopaedia (1904–1909), in green on white paper and in white on black paper. Eleven illustrations are lithographed in black and grey colours on single pages and within the text. Illustrations and text are printed on six folded sheets of paper (24 pages) bound with some circular shaped extra pages with photographic collages inside paper covers, the book, together with an English translation in a separate appendix, is kept in a card slipcase with a cosmic map of Pamir.