The Makers’ House
2023
Details: Complete design and typographic work for the textual accompaniment to BOA’s popular Literary Theory series that included seminars by Ernst Grist, Emma Canales, Chantal Netti, Harvey Lowell, Albert Alby Julian and Rita Vibeka.
2023
Details: Complete design and typographic work for the textual accompaniment to BOA’s popular Literary Theory series that included seminars by Ernst Grist, Emma Canales, Chantal Netti, Harvey Lowell, Albert Alby Julian and Rita Vibeka.
The Paper-Weight
This was no ordinary paper-weight,
With its still, unfathomed waters dark and deep,
Calm as a life where nobler passions sleep
Than greed of gold and power or lust of state;
A globe, like earth's but smaller, was its freight,
And on the globe was every land and heap
Of every mountain, river, lake and steep
That man has ever known or can create.
A paper-weight for those who guide our fate,
In palace, office, council-hall or fleet,
To make their moments of decision swee
t
And speed the tasks that are their life's estate.
But in a cottage by a stream there sate
A globe-maker and paper-maker fleet,
One shaping earth as easily complete,
One giving it a surface delicate.
Each worked and lived to his own tune and rate,
And still the globe retained its stately seat
Upon the paper-weight, serene and great,
As though a god had fashioned it for his seat.
Two workmen labouring in their quiet way
Had wrought a thing of wonder, day by day.
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This was no ordinary paper-weight,
With its still, unfathomed waters dark and deep,
Calm as a life where nobler passions sleep
Than greed of gold and power or lust of state;
A globe, like earth's but smaller, was its freight,
And on the globe was every land and heap
Of every mountain, river, lake and steep
That man has ever known or can create.
A paper-weight for those who guide our fate,
In palace, office, council-hall or fleet,
To make their moments of decision swee
t
And speed the tasks that are their life's estate.
But in a cottage by a stream there sate
A globe-maker and paper-maker fleet,
One shaping earth as easily complete,
One giving it a surface delicate.
Each worked and lived to his own tune and rate,
And still the globe retained its stately seat
Upon the paper-weight, serene and great,
As though a god had fashioned it for his seat.
Two workmen labouring in their quiet way
Had wrought a thing of wonder, day by day.
