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Pandora's Box
2002
Poplar box, laquer and black stain, wide variety of papers, letterpress, silkscreen, ink jet, pulp painting and other printing techniques
letterpress printing
5 1/4 x 17 1/25 x 7 1/2 in
edition of 150
In Greek mythology, Pandora was a woman who was given a box by the gods, and told not to open it. Naturally, she opened it. All the ills of the world flew out, and no one has ever been able to cntain them again. Only hope was left in the box, and so we cling to hope whenever the world seems hopeless. In the present world, hope is more essential than ever, and the ills and evils often seem triumphant. Art can be an expression of hope.// Pandora's Box is the first publication of "epicenter", the press of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. We wished to begin our publishing venture with hope, and so we invited fifty thoughtful and inventive artists to consider the theme of Pandora's box. Their art provokes, dismays, and dazzles us: we thank them.// Anita Leverence, Audrey Niffenegger, Shawn Sheehy, and Stacey Ster, all of "epicenter", developed the concept and design for Pandora's Box.
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