A series of typographic transcription of Alice Sheldon’s, Dead Bird Letters(1). Alice was an American science-fiction writer who cloaked her sexuality in the 1970’s by writing male-driven narratives under the male pen name of James Tiptree Jr..
This short series was commissioned by Brittany Nelson as a gallery accompaniment to Nelson’s holograms for her show, 10,000 Light Years From Home at Patron Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
My role included working with the University of Oregon’s Special Collections and transcribing the nearly illegible original letters hastily hand-written by Alice (writing as Tiptree). These six letters detailed all of the women who had rejected her in her lifetime. The final transcription was then typeset to faithfully include Alice’s corrections, omissions, and annotative marks.
1 All rights University of Oregon, Special Collections
This short series was commissioned by Brittany Nelson as a gallery accompaniment to Nelson’s holograms for her show, 10,000 Light Years From Home at Patron Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
My role included working with the University of Oregon’s Special Collections and transcribing the nearly illegible original letters hastily hand-written by Alice (writing as Tiptree). These six letters detailed all of the women who had rejected her in her lifetime. The final transcription was then typeset to faithfully include Alice’s corrections, omissions, and annotative marks.
1 All rights University of Oregon, Special Collections
