Pandora's Petri Dish
Pandora's Petri Dish
The pristine, vulnerable centre of this print is wrapped in a protective layer of hope that the long history of amazing medical research into vaccines has afforded us. Beyond the vaccines is a world of strange and unusual alien forms created from metal type ornaments & fleurons. More detail of how this print was made can be found here.
Handset letterpress using metal type and printers ornaments & fleurons
Text 10pt Rockwell Light with !0pt Baskerville Numbers
Printed on 38x38cm Somerset Velvet 300gsm soft white paper using a tabletop flatbed proofing press
Posted unmounted and gently rolled in a tube