Our Immortal Soul

Cathy DeForest

Our Immortal Soul

Ashland, OR

Jubilation Press

2015, no. 2 of an edition of 8, signed by the artist

Images and text are printed on Hahnemühle German Etching paper. English and Arabic translation of the Manifesto of the Poets of Baghdad written by Iraqi poet Abdul-Zehra Zeki and translated by Inam Jab. Cloth covered portfolio box by Bookbinder Sabina Nies

Cathy DeForest is a book artist who works in a range of media integrating etchings, letterpress printing and photography. Our Immortal Soul was created as part of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project, an international response to the 2007 bombing of the bookseller’s street in Baghdad. This work includes several parts: hand inked intaglio etchings of cuneiforms dating from the 5th century; the Manifesto of the Poets of Baghdad and a map of the Fertile Crescent. The Box is embellished with a paper clay reproduction of a cuneiform.