Over 15 years ago, I created a suite of broadsheet-sized prints, using multi-color woodcuts and large letterpress types. The work “Txted Haiku Broadsides” was combining eastern sensibilities of poetry with (American) western early typography of posters and announcements.
I relied heavily on my students to get the best texted versions of the chosen haikus. In the days before the obnoxious auto-correction, texted lines afforded larger type choices per line because it “compressed” the words. When reading them, however, they would resurrect to their full splendor.
Now, 4 sets of the original edition of 25 copies have been bound in large folio books. Each contains all 18 original prints, and the books are bound from those single sheets.
The pages use up to 9 different colors, hand-printed from woodcuts and wood type, with an occasional sprinkle of hot-foil and spray-stencil. They are printed on 22x17 inches (56 x 43 cm) acid-free heavy kraft stock, and quarter case-bound with a Kraft-Tex leather strip, over wrapped cover boards, using hand-made Indian paper. Only four copies. Each measures 22.5 x 17.5 x 1.4 inches (57 x45 x 3.5 cm), and has a foil-stamped title on the spine. All pages are signed and numbered as are each of the books.
My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in the case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Rarely is any part produced using digital methods, and if so it is clearly indicated, and only when no other options were available.
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