I primarily make artists books and sometimes the printing process yields some prints. Once in a great while I make a print intentionally. The prints are presented in chronological order, newest first.
Personal Demons: Edition of 50, 2025. $75.00/set, $20.00/individual prints + postage.
Demons are said to symbolize our internal fears, traumas, addictions, negative emotions, and self-limiting beliefs. Embracing your demons can be a way to limit their harmful effects. I’ve gone a bit farther and have chosen to name them and in describing their singular foibles, to make light of their capacity to harm me. It might be thought that I am being flippant about a serious mental health issue. I would suggest they have a chat with Bobo. My thoughts run to demons and hell in our world of 2025. A combination of events and objects have all contributed to this project. I have spent a lot of time with various versions of Dante’s Inferno and images of the apocalypse since the last election. For years a prospectus for 12 facsimile prints from the 10th century Beato de Santo Domingo de Silos now in the British Library has periodically surfaced in my studio clutter. One of the pages, El Infierno was the inspiration for my own drawings of demons. The demons were hand drawn then cut from various shades of gray paper with the essential help of Craig Kelchen, University of Iowa Center for the Book studio manager, using Adobe Illustrator and a Graphtec plotter cutter. I am not a complete techno-boob but certain technologies elude me, Illustrator is one of them. I did additional embellishments using stenciling techniques I was introduced to by Sarah Bryan at the 2025 Paper and Book Intensive. Conversation with Victoria Marcetti and Ronni Komarow, my tablemates during our class with Sarah, helped me develop my ideas around the demons. They use neutral pronouns because as Victoria reminded me, citing the movie Dogma, angels and demons don’t have genitalia. After the Paper and Book Intensive, I spent a fruitful week watching and experimenting a bit with the RISO machine while Ellen Knudson was printing her project Cardinal/Ordinal during her summer residency at Both/And Press at the University of Wisconsin. My thanks to Ellen, Able Broyles, and Julie Chen for all they did for me. I then was able to take an eye-opening RISO and laser cutting workshop with Erin McAdams at the start of the CBAA conference. Erin had us cutting shapes from shades of gray paper and scanning them directly into the RISO for printing. That direct method provided me with the low tech/high tech combination that allowed me to best make use of the RISO technology for my own skills and purposes. As always, I am so grateful for the generosity of the book and paper community. Five demons printed in two-color combinations of various colors of the RISO ink with laser printed texts on Mohawk Superfine White i-Tone eggshell 80-pound text paper. The sets of demons and this colophon page are enclosed in a glassine envelope.
Character proofs from the printing of the book Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues, letterpress printed on Arches Text Wove, 10 x 8 inches, 2022. Hamlet and Ophelia have been sold. $20.00 each.
Desdemona in Her Own Words proofs, letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, 19 x 13 inches, 2013. $100.00 each.
A suite prints of a colorfully dressed figure framed by a text discussing my clothing choices and how they have changed now that they are no longer being scrutinized daily by others. Letterpress and inkjet printed on Rives BFK heavyweight, 20 x 16 inches, 2011. $100.00 each.
Assorted Nightmares, letterpress on Rives Lightweight Paper, 9 x 10 inches, 2010. $50.00
My Dog of Many Parts, letterpress print on Arches Text Wove paper, 11 x 14 inches, 2009. $50.00
Clues but no answers series, letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, 11 x 14 inches, 2008. $75.00. not pictured.
4 prints sets from the Crime and Romance series, etchings on Rives BFK paper, 1995. Each print is 6 x 4 inches and from the larger set of 20 images combined and recombined. $100.00