This keepsake was given to the first 100 attendees to commemorate a reading by author Melanie Rae Thon at the University of Alabama. Using a selection of the author’s text — a paasage about dreams and drowning — the type was letterpress printed on the outside of a plastic bag that was then filled with water and sealed. The combination of the swirling typeface resembling long hair underwater and the odd dead weight feeling of the water in the bag made quite a stir with recipients and the author.

 

Designed and printed by Paul Rustand.