In 2011 the Library Foundation of Los Angeles commissioned me to create a small broadside for an event at the Mark Taper Auditorium at the Central Gallery in celebration of Beat poet Lew Welch on the 40th anniversary of his disappearance. It features his poem "I Saw Myself". Letterpress and relief etching in 2 colors, 5.5 x 3.25 inches (14 x 8.25 cm).
The library also commissioned a limited edition broadside of the Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder’s poem “Axe Handles”. Snyder was reciting Welch’s poems at the event. Here is a link to that page. Here is a link to that page.
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 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. Nothing is produced using digital reproduction methods.
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