Card 1: Overleaf: apple tree on the grounds of Sissinghurst Castle, England, home to Vita Sackville-West. Above: red apple tree in a walled garden at Abbotsford, Scotland, home to Sir Walter Scott. (ongoing work on coins, typography & clichès – Matthew Stuart)
Card 2: Outstretched hand of Johannes Gutenberg holding single types, 1833/34 model by H.W. Bissen under the instruction of Bertel Thorvaldsen, Thorvaldsens museum, Copenhagen. (ongoing work on coins, typography & clichès – Matthew Stuart)
Card 3: Archival photograph from Helen Marten's ongoing collection of defunct, black and white journalistic images. These physical photographs are the starring point for her book of non-fiction essays around image-in-translation titled Broken Villas. The particular image overleaf accompanies the essay 'Erratic Boulders', first published with two further texts – 'Crimped Around The Crown' and 'Hole in the Ground' – as a standalone edition by Bricks from the Kiln, 2024.
Card 4: Remains of a Hoffman Continuous Kiln at Craven Lime Works, a former limestone quarry in Langcliffe, North Yorkshire. Build in 1873 according to designs patented by German inventor Friedrich Hoffmann, the Kiln is made up of 22 interconnecting stone walled chambers build in an oval circuit around a central furnace. Efficient and economical, heat cycles progressively from chamber to chamber, with the firing one preheating the next. As heat moves further round the loop. the chamber cools. its content ready to be unloaded in a continuous production line. Burning for many years consecutively without stopping, the lime quarries and produced here was used for, among many other things, papermaking. (Printed with Bricks from the Kiln #7, November 2024)
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