an announcement:
i've prepared
with enormous help from carol blinn,
my dear friend, who slaved over this job
through the dark of winter
(special edition with original printed cover and shifu left,
photographed cover with printed sample on the right)
who did ALL the work
while i just printed and wove and wrote the stuff.
a little book for australia
about my journey through shifu
and printing.
after long conversations with carol
who is a long time letterpress printer and book designer
and who is still my friend after this herculean effort to be done,
and alicia bailey from the abecedarin gallery
one of a handful of book arts galleries in the u.s.,
i decided to use the nomenclature
that the book arts community overwhelmingly preferred:
"botanical pressure prints*.
fortunately the only confusion
with the word shifu
is the martial art also called shifu.
sigh.
these will be available first in australia
and back in the states
at the end of march, when i will put a button in the shop to order.
there is an edition of 50
with 12 special ones that have an original print for the cover
and a little shifu square inside.
below is one of the limited edition of 12
complete with blue berry prints
should you wish to have a copy
the price will be posted soon,
and you can let me know and i will set one
aside for you.
(you'll have to wait until after OZ)
*botanical*
alchemy has a certain glamour.
here is a little much cooked pot of walnut ink
water &
a short slurp of vinegar,
it's lovely stuff.
more botanical alchemy.
more botanical alchemy.
