THE ARCHIVE
Where it began. The soft launch edition of The Studio Correspondence, mailed to a small circle before the correspondence opened to the world.
Inside the envelope: a limited edition cyanotype print made from botanicals gathered in Richmond Park, a personal letter, a museum dispatch on Anna Atkins, the woman who printed with sunlight, an illustrated cyanotype how-to card, and a curated playlist card.
Each element was made for this edition alone. The print is not a reproduction. The postmark is real.
The complete edition. Both correspondences, together, as they arrived to the first subscribers.
Inside the envelope: The Studio Correspondence's personal letter and place essay on John Constable, The Dispatch's personal letter and place essay on Howard Hodgkin at Pitzhanger Gallery, a curated playlist card, an illustrated mezzotint card, a herbarium card, a pressed specimen gathered by hand, no two entirely alike and a limited edition print made for this edition alone.
Two publications, one envelope. Made for this month, kept for good.
