Black Lives Mattered
2020
Small broadside, 12 separate prints in a series
5 x 8 inches
Although there are many lives that were ended too soon, too violently, and too inappropriately by police or vigilantes, these twelve lives rose to the level of national consciousness. And one, George Floyd, immediately turned into an international rallying cry because his death was captured live, with an extended 9:29 minutes of asphyxiating torture, then death. ~ Printed on an aqua black watercolor sheet, with silver metallic ink using metal type on a 1903 Chandler & Price platen press.
The Grape Array
2020
Letterpress series of 15 grape varietals
9 x 9 inches
Fifteen different grape varietals printed on an Arches Johannot French mouldmade sheet with both a 19th-century Ostrander hand press, and a 20th-century Vandercook No. 2 cylinder press. The large woodblock letter is printed on the Ostrander with three separate inkings to create the color and texture, and the metal type printed in gold on the Vandercook.
NYc
2018
Limited Edition Letterpress Prints
10.5 x 13.5 inches
Large woodblock letters commemorating my home city for thirty years before moving back to California (CA). Signed and framed prints for New York friends and family, printed on a Showcard B tabletop cylinder press.