New prints for a new book

Rocks and cups! Three three-color reductions, all printed on the sign press on transparent paper. I’m looking forward to seeing how this book turns out…

xoxo

Wheeeeeeeels!

Today I made my print for Velociprints.

I continue to be enamored with letterpress – so speedy! (Compared to hand brayering, of course.)

There will be a ride with Gary Fisher (whaaat) ending at Borderlands Brewery for a preview of a few prints, including the one I made today, on Wednesday, October 17th.

Tucson folks, SEE YOU THERE.

Tiny linocut

Hello… abstraction?  For the cover of a new little do-si-do book about home and leaving home.

OH MY GOSH FREE(ish) STUFF

Tomorrow Jake and I are driving to California to see my Grandma and play on the beach and go to MOCA and LACMA.  Hooray, vacation!  In the process of preparing for vacation, though,  I had to clean out the car (which, strangely enough, has acted as storage space up to this point).  But, this is good for you!  In what way?  FREE(ish) STUFF.

I have a bunch of large whale and penguin and panda prints on fabric (previously stored in the trunk of my car) that need homes. LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT ONE.  I accept payment in the form of art trade, cookies, Old Rasputin beer, and good company if it’s really really good.

Further clarification: ‘Large’ means somewhere between 3×4 and 4×5 feet.  ‘A bunch’ means eight.  ‘Fabric’ means pink canvas, white canvas, and striped cotton.  Two are even stretched on frames, whoa.

I’m aware these pictures are of terrible, embarrassing quality.  But, the whale one is a little hilarious: a whale with legs!!

The Lost and Found Books (Part II)

Aha, finally!  Here are select photos of my newest project, the Lost and Found Books.

I think the pseudo-collophan (how do you spell that word?) explains it pretty well:

This book, an homage to what is lost and what is found and what that says about us, includes hand-set letterpress type, the silliest dingbats found in Case 27, etchings and engravings of both known and ambiguous origin, Xerox transfers from an old project, a print of a circuit board that Jake Hintze messed up on, and one lonely relief print from a block acquired at the gem show.

Remember that what is lost is often found.

This edition(ish) of artist books focuses on the many meanings of Lost and Found, because it is through the discarded, reclaimed and sought out that our values are implicitly communicated.  Like any other Lost and Found, I made these books without much of a plan.  I filled the pages as I went with found stories and images to create my own little Lost and Found in book form.  The final step is to lose the books (after, of course, the Letterpress show at the end of the month), returning them to the larger Lost and Found that the content originally came from.

(Can you tell that last bit is my artist statement?  It’s all formal-like and a little stuffy.  Maybe I’ll start making artist statements less stuffy and more delightful and more blog-like.  But still intellectual.  This sounds hard, but I will try.)

They’re the same thing, really.

A silly sintracut that I made for a class exchange last summer.

Dinosaur pants!

Jake had a big hole in his pants, so I agreed to patch it up with a little relief print I made last summer.  The result?  Dinosaur pants!  Hooray for practical art.