You Who Never Arrived
"Immortal" Range Literature Inspired Cards
350gsm
Regular size (14.8cm x 10.5cm) or Extra Large size (21cm x 14.9cm)
100% Recycled Tree-friendly Card and Envelope
10% of profits go to Richard St Barbe Baker Tree Foundations and Somboon Legacy Foundation Elephant Sanctuary
Compostable packaging
This range shares the Immortal moments captured by Poets, Writers and Dreamers.
Each card is printed from 3RD STEP's original hand-painted artwork (watercolours and gouache)
and hand-typed text on the magnificent Olympia Splendid 66 Typewriter !
"You Who Never Arrived"
Austria-Hungary 1913-1918
Cover: Two strangers, searching for each other, are connected by bird song
Inscription: You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start... Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence... Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening
(Rainier Maria Rilke)
Note: Typewriter smudges and blotting have not been edited out, to provide an authentic typewriter text experience. Some letters may be thicker than others due to ink on the typewriter ribbon and weight of keys. Card inscriptions are taken from literary sources. Misspelled words such as "seperate" are copied from the source materials referenced at the back of the card.
Card colours may be slightly warmer or cooler in real life, due to changing light when photographing
Zero land-fill waste (all printing off-cuts composted). 100% recycled tree-friendly Card. Supporting Elephants and Reforestation.
All artworks and photography copyright ©3RD STEP
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