Sunday, January 22, 2012

at the press and around

printmaking and letterpress collaborators
mark and melissa 
 i was mesmerized
 as i watched melissa schulenburg
make prints on a letterpress 
 for a broadside
 melissa designed the block
and mark the typography
and mark is printing
and melissa inking
as a part of a series
i can't wait to see all of them together
~~~
wendy and i

went grocery shopping BEFORE
the print shop visit
on the road there was a deer carcass being eaten
 by a hawk and several ravens
they were unhappy when i stopped, 
turned around for a quick photo
when i first drove by there was much activity, 
four or five ravens, one hawk
 the appropriateness 
of birds getting their winter lunch
knowing it's not free.

18 comments:

  1. no, "knowing" is never free. the cycle of life does not come without a price. ah, the old van dercook...and smell of the printing studio...a wonderful tradition for sure. beauty and sadness (fyi, my confirmation word for this comment is "sting." serendipity.

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  2. INDEED! henrietta, and my insensitive nose loved it!

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  3. It must have been a wonderful experience Velma.The print is beautiful. I love the swirls in the sky.

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  4. that next to last photo, it has the quality of an old print somehow.

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  5. robyn, i'll tell them--
    jude, you're right, thanks for seeing that.

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  6. there is no free lunch! the print is beautiful and I love the process - magical.

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  7. there is so much going on in the north country. inside, outside, everywhere. you are so generous with the stories!

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  8. jean, it's so adirondackish here...
    aimee, and peace paper was at slu and we went to casa del sol for the BEST food in years. cheers!

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  9. Oh, interesting what jude saw/sees. I was so taken with the birds and carcass I didn't SEE that interesting quality. LOVE the print, looks like a great collaboration.

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  10. jude has amazing vision. the birds were very annoyed with me.

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  11. i'm loving the print as well. that process is so involved and such great care must be taken.

    i'd have been so tempted to stash the deer in the ditch so i could return for the bones after the birds have done their thing.

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  12. Zen believes in the transient nature of life and death.. though it is still hard to see an animal like this I know it is part of life. and thanks for sharing your print process.

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  13. lf, i often find bones...i have a little stash and two carcasses close to home for leg bones...for bone folders.
    donna, i don't find it hard when the body is being eaten, i find it hard when i know some idiot has shot it illegally, then dumped it (sans the tenderloin) in a plastic bag in a stream (i wrote about that on an earlier post). i hope i get to print someday, i might be ready to try!

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  14. I was lucky once to see the Northern Lights.
    They have captured it so perfectly in their print.
    Stunning.

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  15. yes, there's no free lunch. however gazing is free.your trip to the printersahhh! in another life i would have been an engraver- printer

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  16. lynn, the green lightshow is the one i usually see, but two or three times i've seen the red and green one. superb.
    neki, there's still lifetime, you know...

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  17. interesting images Velma... both sets...the animals in the elements and those artists at work...
    how wonderful to get to see them in their process.
    S

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  18. thanks, sophie. i like juxtaposition...

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