I am making a quilt using Charles Darwin’s manuscripts of his theory of evolution. These formed the core of his book On the Origin of Species*. A poem, printed in letterpress, will accompany the quilt.
This is a digital layout of the quilt. The manuscripts are printed on cotton sateen. The images from nature are printed on transparent silk georgette and stitched onto the manuscript pages. The final dimensions will be 80”H x 6o”W.
If you forward the image of the quilt and poem to others, please credit Merrill Mason, merrillmason.com.
wormwood
Lemon
All paintings are oil on wood panel.
Watercolor on paper, 2019, 8 x 8”
Printed at the C. R. Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia.
Charles Willson Peale founded the first successful public museum in the United States in 1784. He wrote this rhyme and displayed it over one of the doors of his museum. His son Rembrandt Peale drew this elephant skeleton, which was used as a guide for assembling the bones of a mastodon that his father excavated.
A six inch piece of vintage wooden type for big questions.
A found metal plate.
Letterpress and watercolor on paper, 2019. Poem by Emily Dickinson.
Letterpress and watercolor on paper, 2019. Poem by Emily Dickinson.
Beekeepers
Bookworm damage.
Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, c. 1750. APS
Fern spores on paper.
