What appears to be an illustration of a cathedral is actually printed with type and small shapes in primary colors on a flat sheet of white paper. The work is extremely detailed.

The City is My Religion: A Typographic Memoir. Jennifer Farrell. Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2020. x-Collection Oblong [FOLIO N7433.4.F3677 C58 2020]. Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.

From co-curator Emily Martin:
Jennifer Farrell uses movable type, and movable ornaments to make her images. In Farrell’s letterpress shop she has a large collection of historical fonts and ornaments (decorative elements) that can be combined and recombined to make limitless imagery. For her artist book The City Is My Religion, many, many, individual pieces of lead ornaments are combined to create the cityscape of Chicago and nine other images.

What appears to be an illustration of a cathedral is actually printed with type and small shapes in primary colors on a flat sheet of white paper. The work is extremely detailed.

The City is My Religion: A Typographic Memoir. Jennifer Farrell. Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2020. x-Collection Oblong [FOLIO N7433.4.F3677 C58 2020], Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa Libraries. As on display in the Main Library Gallery.