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Tales of Mystery & Notification 🐦⬛📱
In the Public Domain Image Archive I found Harry Clarke's 1919 plates for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: needle-fine ink, a pattern on every sleeve, and a black that swallows half the page. I built a Recraft V4 Style from five of those plates and sent it back into Poe's tales, this time with phones, inboxes, smart speakers, robot vacuums and parcel boxes. Every new plate keeps the exact caption Clarke printed under his own illustration of that tale, so "They swarmed upon me in ever-accumulating heaps" is now unread email, and "The dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet" is a phone at 1%. The result is ten plates from a book that was never printed.
Quoth the Raven: "Seen."
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