The Six Comforts book, an cyclical work of text and image by artist Christopher Gustave, must not be lost to obscurity.

Christopher Gustave’s immense conceptual art book “The Six Comforts”, 344 pages in total, more than 308 full color plates, will be printed as a tightly-limited edition. We need to pre-sell 230 books in 40 days 130 books in 6 days. Contribute $100 and receive Christopher Gustave's last art work: The Six Comforts.

Gustave conceived of the Six Comforts as a method for living in response to personal tragedy, primarily the death by heroin overdose of his best friend, Daniel Brack, in San Francisco, on September 13th, 1996. Over the next several years, he focused his creative output in book-design, conceptual art, collage and assemblage within a framework of this “sorting construct” of the Six Comforts: key components of a method of living in opposition to super-cultural alienation, and unrecoverable loss.

"The Six Comforts are Home, Sleep, Work, Love, Food and Self. The Six Comforts’ is a sorting construct I formulated around the summer of 1997. At that point in my life I had just endured a blistering spate of profoundly bad luck—death, divorce, unemployment, homelessness… you name it—and I was in a deep state of emotional turmoil and mental resignation… really heart-broken and bereft of hope. Life nearly unendurable and all that. However, given a little time, it was pretty clear that, in spite of all of this, I was not going to just stop living. I had resigned myself to the Nietzschean formula (“That which does not kill us…”). Part of my survival regimen at that time was to simply sort out what I most needed in order to keep on going and just focus on those basics; get myself back into a healthy, sane and productive place. So, those “basics” became ‘The Six Comforts’." — Christopher Gustave, 2002.

The work “The Six Comforts” existed primarily in book-page spreads, diptychs, comprised of poetical texts and, aphorisms layered with photographic elements. It can be read forward to back, back to front, and starting anywhere in the middle. Pages from the unbound book were exhibited and sold in St. Louis galleries between 1999 and 2002. Other works from this series include a Six Comforts “screen” assembly the size of a room, The Six Comforts as a series of hand-pulled woodcuts, The Six Comforts Panels (assemblage of found objects with encaustic) and finally culminating in a concept-album in collaboration with several talented St. Louis musicians.

On January 17^th, 2014, Christopher Gustave was found dead in his apartment of a overdose of anti-depressants. Within days of his passing, hundreds of his friends and supporters organized and began gathering together his works of art. A fundraising memorial was held at MAD Art Gallery in St. Louis, with the purpose to raise money for his eight-year-old daughter, Sophia. We are continuing that purpose in perpetuity with the initial release of this book The Six Comforts, which will mark the completion of Gustave’s final, and perhaps most challenging and important, work of art.

This book embodies a spiritual quest against the backdrop of modern industrial oppression.

The experience one has of reading the book is extraordinary. Gustave tears down megalithic conceptions foisted upon us by a vapid culture and replaces them with sharp, emancipating anti-slogans. While the punk-rock ideals inherent to Gustave’s practice keep everything on the edge, there is redemption on every page.

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Each contributor of $100 gets the book The Six Comforts containing every one of his Six Comforts designs.

• 348 pages of full-color designs. 9.25” x 9.25”
  
• approx. 1.75” thick
  
• 80# quality paper
  
• embossed hardcover
  
• smyth-sewn binding
  

Every person who buys a book will have his or her name recorded on the Six Comforts Book’s Acknowledgements page.

Selections from The Six Comforts Singleton Series are available for $50 each in limited edition of 100.

• 12” x 12” image size,
  
• Archival 100% Cotton Rag Paper
  
• Estate stamped and numbered

Specifications for the Box Set:

• 18” x 18” hand-made wood box, silk-screened images from The Six Comforts series on front and back, drawer format with removable inner box.
  
• 1 shadow boxed "Comfort Relic" from Gustave's collection.
• The Six Comforts Limited-Edition Book
  
• The Six Comforts Singleton limited edition prints, series of 6, 12”x12” on archival paper with estate stamps
  
• The Six Comforts T-shirt with slogan chosen by collector
  
• The Six Comforts CD in special book-binding format.
• Edition of 12 only
  
• $1200
  

Specifications for the Deluxe Box Set:

• 18” x 18” hand-made wood box,  silk-screened images from The Six Comforts series on front and back, suitcase format with slide out display.
  
• Pull out display drawers on either side of the box displaying The Six Comfort Singleton limited edition prints, series of 6, 12”x12” on archival paper with estate stamps
  
• 1 shadow boxed "Comfort Relic" from Gustave's collection.
• The Six Comforts Limited-Edition Book
• The Six Comforts T-shirt with slogan chosen by collector
• The Six Comforts CD in special book-binding format.
• Photographic print of Gustave
  
• Hidden compartment with additional artifacts
  
• Edition of 7, only 6 available
  
• $2300
  

4. The Six Comforts T-Shirt 

Choose from several designs, each an aphorism from the pages of The Six Comforts.

• $30 each
  
• Black High-Quality American Apparel T-Shirt
  
• Screen applied white lettering and design
  
• We will contact you after purchase to specify size and style information