Printed in an edition of 3 copies.

Medium consists of stenciled, abstract forms on sandpaper.

"Looking for elements that could possibly fit into an inventory, Frans Baake decided to stay close to his interest in basic shapes and forms, meanwhile thinking of a typical atmosphere that the Middle-East landscape represents to him. In 8 more or less abstract forms stenciled on sandpaper, he used the roughness of the paper itself. These shadows are reflections of forms; they belong to each other. While the object might have disappeared, the shade remains as a memory. Each picture has been introduced by the letterpress-pressure of the title of the book"--The Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website (viewed May 8, 2015).

On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the longstanding heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community for centuries. In response to the attack, a San Francisco poet and bookseller, Beau Beausoleil, rallied a community of international artists and writers to produce a collection of letterpress-printed broadsides (poster-like works on paper), artists' books (unique works of art in book form), and an anthology of writing, all focused on expressing solidarity with Iraqi booksellers, writers and readers. The coalition of contributing artists calls itself Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.