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The Wild Swans
With her bare hands, the sister makes shirts from stinging nettles. She works silently for six years to redeem her brothers.
2001 Text collage of the fairy tale
versions by Hans Chr. Andersen
and the Brothers Grimm
on nine transparent sheets
hand-setting and letterpress
Gutenberg Museum Printshop
18 single sheets of handmade paper
by Johannes Follmer,
the plumage,
le chemise and couched paper
are made of cultivated stinging nettle
nine fairy tale pictures with drawing
and watercolour,
embossed cassette
25 variations, 35 x 25 cm
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