Ep. 88: UNA 'Daughter One' — Limited Edition Art Print
LIMITED EDITION SERIES ~ (1 of 25) ~ (1 of 10) ~ (1 of 5)
Ep. 88: UNA 'Daughter One' — Limited Edition Art Print
HAND-CUT RELIEF PRINT
PRINTED IN THE BYRON BAY HINTERLAND
The still thing at the centre of an enormous amount of motion.
A woman sits in lotus, eyes closed, hands resting. Out of her head comes a mass of hair so large it fills everything — turning into four great spirals, curling out and folding back, forming a lopsided circle around her. Sepia watercolour on cotton rag.
Daughter One. The original artwork from Ep. 88, 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. 88
— Watercolour, 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
She is not painted. Look closely at the body and there is almost nothing there — a few soft lines for the shoulders, the curve of an arm, the crossed legs — and the rest is bare paper. Every drop of pigment in this image is hair. The woman exists because the brush stopped, and the enormous swirling mass around her exists because it didn’t.
Then the ratio. Her head is small and sits low and central; the hair occupies perhaps thirty times the area of the figure it comes out of. That disproportion is the subject. Something very large has come out of something very small, and it is still coming.
The spirals are not decoration. There are four distinct vortices — the great one top left, two on the right, one tucked under at the bottom — and a spiral is the only shape that goes outward and inward at the same time. The hair leaves her, travels as far as the sheet allows, and curls back on itself. Nothing escapes. The composition is an expansion that is also a return.
And the mass is not a circle, though it nearly is. It bulges at the upper right where the pigment is darkest and heaviest, flattens along the lower left where it washes out to almost nothing, and sits slightly off-axis. A planet, a nest, a brain, a wave — an imperfect round, which is a far better shape for this than a compass circle would have been.
The light does the same trick as the rest of the image: it isn’t added. The lower left is luminous because the artist withheld pigment there, and the pale streaks running through the dark hair are dry-brush — the places the bristles skipped across the tooth of the paper and left the white showing. Accidents, kept.
Her face is the only place the hand slowed down. Eyebrows, closed lids, the suggestion of a mouth, all tiny and all carefully done, in an image otherwise made of enormous sweeping gestures. That shift of pace is the tenderness in it.
The title holds two things at once. One as in we are all one — and the shape says so, a single closed form with no beginning or end. One as in the first daughter — and the figure says so, a single person, sitting by herself at the centre of it.
Across the range every other woman is doing something. TERRA curls into herself, MILA becomes the land, ALA stands, KAIA kneels, AURORA reaches, EVE wraps herself around the world. UNA is the only one at rest, and she is the one with the most happening around her. That is not an accident either.
Sixty-five impressions of Daughter One 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 tall 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 watercolour was painted 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 painting?
No. The original is a one-off gouache and is not for sale. This is an archival pigment reproduction of it — the paper texture is real, the brushwork is printed flat.
Is it portrait or landscape?
Landscape.
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 one suitable for a child’s room?
Yes, and it is probably the best in the range for it — strong simple colour, a clear figure, nothing frightening, and a sentence a child can read. A3 is the usual choice.
Can I frame it myself? The framed version uses a custom mat, but the unframed sheets are standard A-series landscape, so an off-the-shelf frame of the same size will fit.
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
