Bits and Pieces

Ha! I don't even feel close to being on top of upcoming deadlines and then more appear like magic. So these photos are from a few days ago. First, a late night session with the C & P treadle-driven platen press at Blackbird Letterpress. Andy and coffee kept company while I printed the first layer of my show card, a shiny thin lilac layer that does not photograph well.



Sunday I went to school to build more for the army of handmade paper hot balloons. This paper always looks so nice lined up along the windows outside the shop. When they are dry, I cut them off the frames and add them to the balloons. But you will have to come to my show to see them, Saturday December 3rd at the Ephemeral Gallery, Baton Rouge.

In Truth I Find You Kind of Annoying

...which is the title of this print and how I feel about my cat at this moment. This print is from Fall 2009 and I just got around to photographing it. It is about 36 inches square, litho, screen print, letterpress, stitching and wax. A little bit of everything. A little story about an arctic fox and a polar bear.

Where I've Been

In the basement of the Natural History Museum, there is a printshop. I have been arriving first, unlocking the door, wiping the humidity from my arms, turning on the lights and getting to work. I was never the last to leave. I sometimes ate two meals a day on the stainless steel tables, my food tasting slightly of Comet and emulsion. Now the best of what I made rests wrapped in glassine in cardboard, awaiting inspection by my professor. I am going to post some of it here. Then celebrate. This is what I have been doing.
This is something I worked on a few months ago. It is a lithograph printed on hand made paper. The white and yellow are part of the paper and the text is letterpressed. It is about 11x 17 inches and less menacing than the images that came before it. I wanted to make prints that might inspire people.




This is my final project. After breaking a litho stone with the original image (yikes!) I made a screen print of it and printed them on handmade paper. The paper is pale yellow with a watermark pattern and it did not survive the scanner. This is the same image on translucent drafting paper. It is about 12 x 7 inches. Maybe some day I will get a good photo of the watermaked paper for you.



It wouldn't be fair to show you these yet because I have not mailed them but here is number 18 in the Keep Writing series of postcards. This is a silk screened collaboration with Walker Mettling currently of Providence, RI, and former roommate. Read about his future death here:
www.walkerthepedestrian.blogspot.com
If you want to see the postcard in its entirety, you will have to subscribe. For detals and other examples go to www.gutwrench.etsy.com

I've been writing away as if I don't have a project to hang. I will post more photos of other work soon.