A Parcel – Inspired by John Berger
€ 5,00 – € 10,00
This image of a parcel on the counter of a post office is inspired by this short story from John Berger:
“The post office at Auxonne is small and the postmistress has blue eyes. I have been there only twice. The first time was to send you a parcel; as the postmistress weighed it on the scale, I imagined your hands opening it.
“Four kilos, three hundred grams.”
In a parcel, wrapped by hand, there is a message weighing nothing: the receiver’s fingers may unknot the string which the sender’s tied.
In the post office I saw in my mind’s eye your fingers untying the knot I tied at Auxonne.
Ten days later I again stopped in the town, and went to the post office, this time to post you a letter. I remembered the day when I sent off the parcel and I felt a twinge of loss. Yet what had I lost? The parcel arrived safely. You had made soup with the beetroots. And the bottle of distilled water from the flowers of the orange trees you had placed on its shelf, above your dresses in the cupboard. All that had been lost was the little future of the parcel.
What we mourn for the dead is the loss of their hopes. The man-with-the-parcel was as if dead; he could hope no more. The man-with-the-letter had taken his place.”
-From the book: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
- Available sizes
A4 – 210 x 297 mm // 8.3 x 11.7 inches
A3 – 297 x 420 mm // 11.7 x 16.5 inches - How The Download Works
After purchase you will receive a PDF-file in the size you’ve chosen. This file is meant for your private use only and not allowed to be sold or send/shared with others. If you want to share it with someone else, please purchase it again for this purpose. - How to Print the File
You can print this file at home or at a print shop. For help and ideas about how and where to print click here.
NOTE: There are two files that come with this download. One with crop marks and one without. The crop marks are helpful to cut the illustration out accurately. When you let it print at a print shop, you can just send them the file with crop marks and they will be able to cut it accurately.
This image of a parcel on the counter of a post office is inspired by this short story from John Berger:
“The post office at Auxonne is small and the postmistress has blue eyes. I have been there only twice. The first time was to send you a parcel; as the postmistress weighed it on the scale, I imagined your hands opening it.
“Four kilos, three hundred grams.”
In a parcel, wrapped by hand, there is a message weighing nothing: the receiver’s fingers may unknot the string which the sender’s tied.
In the post office I saw in my mind’s eye your fingers untying the knot I tied at Auxonne.
Ten days later I again stopped in the town, and went to the post office, this time to post you a letter. I remembered the day when I sent off the parcel and I felt a twinge of loss. Yet what had I lost? The parcel arrived safely. You had made soup with the beetroots. And the bottle of distilled water from the flowers of the orange trees you had placed on its shelf, above your dresses in the cupboard. All that had been lost was the little future of the parcel.
What we mourn for the dead is the loss of their hopes. The man-with-the-parcel was as if dead; he could hope no more. The man-with-the-letter had taken his place.”
-From the book: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
- Available sizes
A4 – 210 x 297 mm // 8.3 x 11.7 inches
A3 – 297 x 420 mm // 11.7 x 16.5 inches - How The Download Works
After purchase you will receive a PDF-file in the size you’ve chosen. This file is meant for your private use only and not allowed to be sold or send/shared with others. If you want to share it with someone else, please purchase it again for this purpose. - How to Print the File
You can print this file at home or at a print shop. For help and ideas about how and where to print click here.
NOTE: There are two files that come with this download. One with crop marks and one without. The crop marks are helpful to cut the illustration out accurately. When you let it print at a print shop, you can just send them the file with crop marks and they will be able to cut it accurately.
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