Calligraphy

Shakespeare Quotes On Marbled Paper

This project was a collaboration with papermaker and marbler Tom Leech. We selected quotations from Shakespeare plays, and Tom marbled individual sheets of paper to enhance each quote. I designed and wrote out the lettering to fit with the marbling and to support the sense of the words. All pieces are on 18" by 24" paper.

“My library was dukedom large enough.”

--The Tempest

“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds.”

--Romeo And Juliet

“What seest thou, in the dark backward and abysm of time?”

--The Tempest

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

--Romeo and Juliet

“Monster, I do smell all horse-piss, at which my nose is in great indignation.”

--The Tempest