Heteroglossia

Heteroglossia is a large format artist bookwork of hand coloured stone lithographs and text (folio dimensions 57x47cms), that pays homage to the 19^th century confluence of stone lithography and medical science. Laying ground for both the flourishing of lithography and scientific progress in an Age of Empire, were the colonial trails of traded goods and exploited lives. It was this geo-political legacy of extraction, slavery, and profit, that yielded the gum Arabic, turpentine and other materials found in both pharmacies, hospital mortuaries, and print workshops. Heteroglossia is a technical and geo-political guide to these resources used in the production of stone lithographs.

More information about the context of this work and its production can be seen in chapter three (figure 44) of my Phd. thesis 'Writing on Stone: the generative intersection between language and lithography' (2024).