Fazal Sheikh: Ether

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-16 Pages: 88 Language: English Publisher: Thames & Hudson The pictures in Ether. Sheikhs first book in colour. were made as a way to honour the experience of death and to try to comprehend its significance . Benares (Varanasi) is one of Indias sacred cities. where many Hindus come to die in the belief that they will find salvation. As he walked its streets by night. Sheikh observed sleeping figures. shrouded in blankets. lost to an oblivion that seemed . in that holy city. to offer a simulacrum of death. In watching these ambiguous figures. which hover in the imagination between a dream state. sleep and death. Sheikh recalled his own experience with his dying father and their passage together through his fathers final days. He remembered it as an invaluable period of emotional connection with the body and soul of the person he knew and loved. a c...