For my friends in the typosphere:
This is the third page of the text of a lecture I held in Groesbeek, a town in the wooded hills around the eastern city of Nijmegen. A wealthy art-lover sponsored an exhibition of art and design in an obsolete telephone operator’s building. Quite an elaborate affair with hundreds of attendents, catered snacks, good wines etc etc. The exhibition was a tasteful and professional one, small but of high quality.
The artist who organised everything, Bert Vredegoor, had read an article of mine about decoration in a design magazine and asked me to open the exhibition with a lecture. So I did, but as I was writing the final version of the text, I imagined myself with the white, laser printed A4 sheets behind the lectern and decided to type a final-final version on the Lettera 32. On sheets from the Amped Gold Fibre A5 writing pad I had bought in New York last week. These are not for sale in the Netherlands. I did a rewrite from the screen of my Macbook, but ofcourse had to correct and add in that file from the typewritten version.
In the garden, on the little stage with all the local art buffs and contributing artists eagerly awaiting my lecture I got out the writing pad and took out the nine typewritting sheets in ‘antique ivory’ and started reading.
My son (17) remarked in awe that it looked like a document from the fifties. He made it sound like a rare medieval treasure.
Here is a link to a site with video’s of the exhibition, the opening and my lecture.