TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shyam, Bhajju
AU  -  Bai, Durga
TI  - The Night Life of Trees
SN  - 9788186211922
U1  - CRFT 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Tara Books
KW  - Central India
KW  - Craft & Making
KW  - Gond beliefs and traditions
KW  - Gond tribal community
KW  - Tree lore
N1  - The Night Life of Trees is an exquisite hand-bound and screen-printed book of paintings by three of the finest artists of the Gond tribal art tradition. The Gonds, a tribe of central India, are traditionally forest dwellers. They believe that trees are hard at work during the day providing shelter and nourishment to all. Only when night falls can they finally rest, and their spirits reveal themselves. These luminous spirits are captured in The Night Life of Trees, a fascinating and haunting foray into the Gond imagination. Each painting is accompanied by its own poetic tale, myth or lore, narrated by the artists themselves, which recreate the familiarity and awe with which the Gond people view the natural world. Screen-printed by hand on black paper, every page of this book is an original print. Each book in this limited second edition of 1,000 is individually numbered
ER  -