the abandoned ship, 2021

Embroidery, 4 color threads on white cotton fabric, 20 x 12.5 cm. Linocut print, 4 color plates, 29 x 18 cm, 6 prints in total.

Both embroidery and linocut print are replicas of a stamp worth 0.25 Monégasque francs. The original design was issued on the 2nd of May 1978, in Monaco, as part of a set of 8 stamps, designed and engraved by Pierre Forget, to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the sci-fi novelist Jules Verne. This work is a two version replica of one of the 3 stamps depicting a scene from Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island”, set during the Siege of Richmond, at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

Travel App, organized and curated by Mary Cox & Panagiotis Voulgaris, FokiaNou Art Space, Athens, Greece.

The original 1978 stamp of “The Mysterious Island”.