Meador, Clifton: Empty Throne About fifteen years ago, a friend of mine wrote to ask me why I didn’t make books with purely visual narratives. I think they were suggesting that my use of writing was a crutch, a way to avoid the difficult task of making a compelling visual narrative. The letter came during the time when I was almost finished working on a long project about the Derge Parkhang, a sutra printing temple located on the eastern border of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and I had a great many pictures from that project for which I did not have a use. I immediately started working on a sequence of those images that I thought told a story of a trip into the high mountains of Eastern Tibet, leading a viewer into a visually allegorical journey of revelation. en., Offset lithographed in black and silver on grey paper, hand sewn and casebound, 64p, 6 x 10 inch, Ed. of 100, 2023, Request of availability backnext