The images taken up here come mostly from the public domain: the open digital archives of institutions, also newspapers, old photographs and screenshots.

Yet to come from the public domain is not to belong to the public. Beneath copyright and access permissions lies a deeper, structural hold — the resolution at which an image appears, the history it is tied to, the account through which it is read, all remain with whoever controls those conditions. To print such an image back into a physical object is to take up that position.

2024-2026.