Archival Note Card | Cultural Revolution | #12

Orange pen nib stabs down at a coiled white snake, with bold script above.

This is an archival note card from the cultural revolution series, no. 12, titled "the pen & the serpent". It is archival paper. Graphic art of the Cultural Revolution generally followed an officially approved style, with heroic figures, strong diagonals and a limited range of bright colors that read clearly at a distance. Slim card on a cream ground. A giant fountain pen in orange and black points to a pale snake curled at its base, its head raised. Heavy black characters run across the top, and a narrow column of text sits at the right. It is 7 inches long and 5 high.

A pen that means business, apparently.