Original photogrpah from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Reproduction published in The Red Rose girls : an uncommon story of art and love by Alice A. Carter, 2000.
An artist's book of the story 'Baba Yaga', retold by Aleksandr Afanas'ev ; translated by W. R. S. Ralston ; etchings by Sarah Horowitz
Baba Yaga originates from Slavic folklore, and is characterized by her bad tempter, house on chicken legs, and flying mortal and pestle.
Full printed beige stiff-paper boards; bound tue-mouche, with yap edges and exposed sewn hinges; cover lettered in spring green; in a stiff paper folding portfolio.
15 cards : illustrations ; 13 x 18 cm/ Title card and 14 illustrated postcards, all tied with twine and laid in a cardboard gift box.
The artist recalls her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic from March, 2020 through November, 2021 as a student at Washington University in St. Louis, unable to go home to China. She creates a series of postcards to send to her family in Chengdu, chronicling her daily life and depicting the loneliness of a campus in lockdown with stark pen-and-ink drawings.
