The poster "Once Upon a Type" [65 x 48 cm] comes from a series of collages I made during these last two years of pandemic. Unable to print in my studio for a long period of time, I had the idea of doing a revision exercise on my collection of letterpress prints, produced by me over these 24 years of work. It was a great challenge and a careful work of observation, selection and recombination of the typographic elements so that they could come to life again and give continuity to my work of creation and exploration of the experimental typographic language. Collage was the technique and language that allowed me to play with time, gave me freedom to think of using fragments of different works and in different contexts to formulate new meanings. After these two years, I am currently working on a selection of these collages to reprint them again in letterpress, using wood and metal types over the copies of the original collages digitally printed in fine art.

The digital copies of the collages were printed on FineArt Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308 gsm paper, and then printed in letterpress using wood and metal types on a Vandercook Universal III and a platen press adapted for large formats. Print run: 10 units.

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