Jun 08
This book started, once again, with light cotton cloth adhered to an old photocopy. The photocopy was of a dictionary page with the word “swift†on it–used for another project—but you can’t see it very well now. To let the image show through, I cut out twin silhouettes of flying swallows before adhering it to …
Jun 03
Some of these I left unglazed. I did this partly because I was running out of time to glaze, and partly because I thought I might paint some with iron-paint. I didn’t paint them with iron paint, but I did put the unglazed ones in the damp part of the garden, hoping that they might …
May 25
With this book I started once again with calico pasted to typing paper. The page was a sheet from an old manuscript, but the text is not visible. I tried to do a second print from the tree monoprint, but it didn’t take very well. I used an onion bag to put some texture on, …
May 17
This is a sign I made for the reading at Wiscon that some fellow writers and I are going to do. I started with an old piece of matboard that I’d painted with several layers of acrylic. I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was …
May 12
I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back. So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages. This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …
