Reverting To Type.

A set of 6 original artworks by Jolyon Fenwick, from an edition of 50.

I In Homage
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'In Homage to the Invention, Artistry and Blessed Reverence with which Nigh On Twenty Generations of
Originators, Founders, Punchcutters, Typesetters, Designers and Calligraphers Have Contrived, in for the Most Part Heroic Obscurity, to Conceive,
Art Direct and Manifest the Graphic Currency of Civilisation.'

II Just Clients
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'In Considering the Relative Importance of Those Who Lit the Way of Western Progress it is Perhaps Worth
Remembering That to Garamond, Granjon, Caslon, Austin, Miller, Didot, Kennerley, Dwiggins, Gill and Morison, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Tolstoy,
Dickens, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Eliot Were Just Clients.'

III The Dichotomy
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'Dichotomy Between Reading and Seeing Presents You Here With Two Distinct Choices – to Inspect and Admire
the Crafted Letters of Garamond, Van Dijck, Caslon, Baskerville, Bell, Rogers, Van Krimpen and Morison, or Simply to Treat Them as Component
Parts of Two Sentences. You Cannot Simultaneously Do Both.'

IV Once Read
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'In Sober Recognition of Each Letter in the History of Type which, in fulfilment of its Destiny and Forsaking any
Hopes or Ambitions for Itself in the Service of Language, Has Taken its Place for All Eternity in an Adjacent Sequence of its Peers With the Certain
and Unvarnished Knowledge that Once Read it is Dead.'

V Privileged As We Are
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'Privileged As We Are to Be Granted Such Rare Autonomy, As a Collection of Letters Spanning Over Three
Centuries, We Would Be Very Grateful If On This One Occasion You Could Resist the Temptation of Eliding Us into Words of Meaning and Simply Consider
Each of Us In Turn On Our Own Individual Typographical Merits.'

VI A Redemptive Reality
The grid of letters in the picture reads 'It is a Doleful Yet Nonetheless Redemptive Reality That, Despite Our Best, Tireless and Frequently Self-Destructive
Efforts to Create Some Earthly Artifact That Will Outlive Ourselves, the Closest Most of Us Will Get to Bequeathing the World a Lasting Artistic Legacy
is the Font We Request of the Stonemason.'