Ep. 59: MIMI 'Like Mother, Like Daughter' — Limited Edition Art Print
LIMITED EDITION SERIES ~ (1 of 25) ~ (1 of 10) ~ (1 of 5)
Ep. 59: MIMI 'Like Mother, Like Daughter' — Limited Edition Art Print
HAND-CUT RELIEF PRINT
PRINTED IN THE BYRON BAY HINTERLAND
They make one circle. They do not touch.
Two women, mirrored, each curled inside a half-circle — one in fired terracotta, one in raw sand. Together they form a whole. Between them runs a thin channel of bare paper that never closes. Hand-cut letters wrap each side in her own colour.
The original artwork from Ep. 59, now as a limited edition archival print.
Made to order in the Byron Bay Hinterland. Please allow 3–4 weeks.
AT A GLANCE
— Original artwork from Ep. 59
— Hand-cut forms in two flat colours, reproduced as an archival pigment print
— Ilford Galerie 310gsm, 100% cotton rag
— Framed or unframed
— A4, A3, A2 and A0
— Editions of 25, 25, 10 and 5
— Printed in the Byron Bay Hinterland
— Made to order · please allow 3–4 weeks (A0, 4–5 weeks)
✓ Archival 100% cotton rag · ✓ Pigment inks · ✓ Made to order · ✓ Closed edition
MADE TO ORDER · ALLOW 3–4 WEEKS
Start with the gap. The two halves form one circle, and they do not meet — a narrow channel of untouched paper runs the full height between them, from the top of the ring to the bottom. The composition is one shape made of two things that are not joined, and the piece makes no move to resolve that. Likeness is not sameness. The whole title is a comparison, not an equation, and the seam is where the comparison lives.
Then the colours, which are doing more than decoration. Terracotta is clay that has been fired — changed by heat, finished, no longer able to become anything else. Sand is the same material before any of that happened. Mother and daughter are rendered in one substance at two stages of becoming. You could make the point in a sentence; the palette makes it without one.
They sit identically. Knees drawn up, head bowed onto a forearm, face in profile — the same posture, reversed. Nothing in the drawing tells you they are alike. The drawing simply repeats, and you conclude it yourself. That is a harder way to write a sentence and a better one.
But they are not the same size. The left figure is fuller, and her half-circle is a solid mass; the right is smaller, held in what reads more as a crescent than a half. One contains the shape the other is still growing into. Which of those is the mother is not stated, and the two possible answers are both uncomfortable in interesting ways.
The letters are colour-coded to the figure each describes — “LIKE MOTHER” in terracotta on the left, “LIKE DAUGHTER” in sand on the right — and they are split by the same vertical seam that divides the circle. Even the language is halved. The one word that crosses the middle is the one in both phrases: like.
And it is the only landscape work in the range. It has to be. A piece about two things sitting side by side cannot be made to stand up.
Sixty-five impressions of Like Mother, Like Daughter will exist. Across every size, for the life of this label.
— A4 · edition of 25
— A3 · edition of 25
— A2 · edition of 10
— A0 · edition of 5
The editions fall as the paper grows. An A0 is not a larger A4 — it is a different object, on a different roll, taking two people to lift off the table and a wall wide enough to carry it. There are five.
1 of 5 means five people. Not five this season, not five per country. Five, ever.
When a size sells out, it closes. It does not return in another colourway, at another trim, or as an anniversary run. We keep a record of every edition against the artwork.
This is an edition, not the original. The original was made once and is not for sale. What you are buying is an archival pigment print of it on cotton rag, strictly limited, and then stopped.
Printed on Ilford Galerie 310gsm — a 100% cotton rag, acid-free, archival fine-art paper with a soft matte surface and a natural white tone. No optical brighteners, so it will not yellow or shift. Pigment inks, rated for over a century without fading under normal conditions.
Cotton rag was chosen to match the original. A relief print is a conversation between a hard block and a soft sheet — the plank grain, the skips, the uneven coverage all exist because paper with tooth received them. A slick paper would reproduce the shape and lose the reason.
Each print is produced to order in Australia and inspected by hand before it leaves us.
— A4 · 21 × 29.7 cm · edition of 25
— A3 · 29.7 × 42 cm · edition of 25
— A2 · 42 × 59.4 cm · edition of 10
— A0 · 84.1 × 118.9 cm · edition of 5
A0 is chest height on most people. It is a wall, not a picture. If you are deciding between A2 and A0, measure the space first — the jump is larger than it looks on a screen.
Framed prints arrive ready to hang — a slim flat white timber moulding, a deep white cotton-rag mat, and glazing. No assembly, no trip to the framer.
Unframed prints ship flat, interleaved with acid-free tissue, in a rigid board mailer. A0 unframed ships rolled in a heavy-gauge tube. Every size is standard A-series, so an off-the-shelf frame will fit without custom cutting.
Hang out of direct sunlight. Handle unframed prints by the edges or with clean dry hands — cotton rag marks easily. Do not use glass cleaner directly on a framed print; spray the cloth, not the glass.
Every print is made to order. Printing begins within two business days of your order, and we ask you to allow 3–4 weeks in total. A0 prints take 4–5 weeks, because they travel by freight rather than post.
It is slower than holding stock. It also means there is no excess, and nothing gets pulped.
— Prints ship separately from garments. If your order includes both, the tee will come first.
— A4, A3 and A2 ship tracked with Australia Post. International shipping is available on these sizes, calculated at checkout.
— A0 prints ship by freight carrier, not Australia Post, and are available within Australia only. They exceed international parcel limits in both rolled and framed form.
Returns on prints. Every print is made to order, so we are not able to offer refunds or exchanges for change of mind. Please choose your size and finish carefully before ordering.
If your print arrives damaged, faulty, or not what you ordered, that is a different matter entirely — email us a photo within 7 days at oldest@daughtercollective.com and we will replace it or refund it, your choice. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected by anything on this page.
What does “1 of 25” mean? The edition size. We make 25 of the A4 and A3, 10 of the A2, and 5 of the A0 — and then that artwork is never printed at that size again.
Will it ever be reprinted? No. Once an edition closes, it closes.
Is this the original?
No. The original was made once and is not for sale. This is an archival pigment reproduction of it — the paper texture is real, the image is printed flat.
Is it portrait or landscape?
Landscape. It is the only work in the range that is, because the composition is two figures side by side.
What is the paper?
Ilford Galerie 310gsm — 100% cotton, acid-free, archival.
How big is A0, really?
119 × 84cm — nearly 1.2 metres across. A2 is 59 × 42cm, A3 is 42 × 30cm, A4 is 30 × 21cm.
Is this a good gift for a mother or a daughter?
It is the one piece in the range made for exactly that, and it does not pick a side.
Why 3–4 weeks?
Each print is made to order rather than held in stock, then checked by hand before it ships. A0 takes 4–5 weeks because it travels by freight.
Can I return it if I change my mind?
Not on prints, because each one is made to order for you. Damaged or faulty prints are always replaced or refunded.
We named this label Oldest Daughter because the women who carry the most deserve something built to carry them back.
Every artwork in this series was made by hand, for one episode, and printed in our studio in the Byron Bay Hinterland. The prints exist so the work can live somewhere other than a wardrobe.
🤎 from the OD team
