Here, the menu is still written out by hand daily and then mimeographed in lilac-colored ink.

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This futuristic vision of what appears to be a colony for a planet other than ours in colored pencil, ink and sepia wash is done in the calligraphic hand of a fastidious draftsman.

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With no access to colored inks, prisoners use watered-down black ink to create shadows and depth a technique called "fine-line" tattooing.

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