. Portfolio Site

nif made this rather brilliant portfolio site for me.  You should check it out.  And then give me a job.

. Fear My Registration

What oh what have we been doing...  Taking captivating polaroids of cats, is one answer.  Blowing each other up is another.  And spending hours boring book arts students with micro registration is another!   

Perhaps because of my excellent ability to make simple projects drawn out & complicated, printmakers Susan Belau and Mario Laplante invited me to collaborate with MFA Poetry student, Carolyn Ho, to create an artist book, and then to work with their Advanced Book Arts students to print the edition. 

Turns out Carolyn & I are mean, and we're making them print 80 of everything.

But after just 3 hours of nano-fussing...

 ... you get 80 prints of perfection in 20 minutes.

Well, per each color layer...

Per each page... 

But, yeah, halfway done!

There are few better ways to earn booze o'clock & then fall asleep at a respectable 8:59pm.

. Oohlala ...

... I got included in the SF Center for the Book post on the NEA blog:

. First Thursday

Lovely prints in a lovely little gallery. And I'm one of the lovelies.
Wander by for the opening on Thursday, or any of the other first 29 days in April.

. Typography

. Fin

'Fin' (french for 'the end') is a Semordnilap of 'nif,' which is funny to me because I never really finish things. So, in suit, 5 books, 3 boxes, & 2 slip cases are glued, bound, & flat, making this project done enough for now.

The construction zone on our dining room table is cleared & can now be used for food; heavy art books used for weights have been re-alphabetized; glue rubbings are now sucked & stuck in the vacuum; and one artist book set has been turned in to the gallery. It's time to start something new.

Yes, Tina, you know what this means...

. Weighting

There is a little book under there & it better be flat.

. Binding