Art / Typographic Art

Style
Distressed typography printed onto solid limestone.

The perfect gift for new parents.

Production Process
As the base for our artwork we have chosen a natural limestone with a warm, creamy colour and soft white undertones. This has been given a tumbled finish (this is a process by which stone is tumbled or vibrated with smaller abrasives to produce an aged appearance) which results in a rough and pitted surface with broken, rounded edges and corners.

The stone tablet is then overprinted with distressed typography, which follows the contours of the pitted stone to give a lovely touchy-feely piece of artwork.

The stone tablet is unframed and looks great leaning on a bookcase, hearth, or mantle.

The text reads "Babies are such a nice way to start people. Chil­dren rein­vent your world for you. Hav­ing a child is surely the most beau­ti­fully irra­tional act that two people in love can commit. There are three reas­ons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right tem­per­at­ure; it comes in attract­ive con­tain­ers; and the cat can’t get it. Babies are always more trouble than you thought… and more wonderful. A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank­roll smal­ler, home hap­pier, clothes shab­bier, the past for­got­ten, and the future worth liv­ing for. A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of respons­ib­il­ity at the other. The worst fea­ture of a new baby is its mother’s singing. Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvi­ous con­fec­tions, chil­dren tend to be sticky. A cry­ing baby is the best form of birth control. People who say they sleep like a baby usu­ally don’t have one. Mak­ing the decision to have a baby — it’s moment­ous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walk­ing out­side your body."

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