Above and Below

It's June already! I've been working on some new letterpress prints, including this one titled, Above and Below. This is a continuation of the Small Fires series, an ongoing body of work that explores pictographic images as modes of communication. These prints are all handset with wood and metal type and printed on a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press.

 

:: setting the type for Above and Below ::

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:: Above and Below, 2013, 14.5" x 22", letterpress on cotton paper ::

Workings and drawings

Drawings imaginary islands, compiling and looking more closely at the images I've gathered. Boats, roots, pyramids, little thoughts.