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Sarah and the Sommers Gas

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Sarah and the Sommers Gas: A5 to A4, true relative scale

Sarah and the Sommers Gas, both sizes, true relative scale

All 2 sizes, true relative scale.

What it's made of

Archival paperHahnemühle 310gsm, acid-free cotton rag.
Giclée inkFade-resistant 100+ years indoors.
Open EditionPrinted to order, unsigned.
Drawn firstEvery line starts on paper.

The Story

Professor Charles Sommers invented a vapor dubbed the Summers Gas which changed the human mind’s perception of beauty by reversing the spectrum and covertly deployed it.

Overnight, those who had traded on their sublime looks became social pariahs while those who had been shunned as inescapably ugly were lauded.

Sarah had been the beneficiary of her prettiness as long as she could remember until that momentous when all she had invested in was stolen by the vapor.