Deconstructing Elsie
Deconstructing Elsie
Deconstructing Elsie


pepper love: that's how I think of it

By Jessica Spring Tacoma, Washington: Springtide Press, 2002. Edition of 15.

15.125 x 20" single sheet broadside, part of the Spiceography series. Printed letterpress using handset Satanick typeface for the headline and Troy for the body. Printed from photopolymer plates onto handmade paper with pepper in the mix. Satanick is based on the Troy and Chaucer types designed by William Morris for his Kelmscott Press.

Jessica Spring's homage to pepper features an excerpt from Salmon Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh: "Abraham and Aurora fell in pepper love…."
$100