a (her)story-- a book

an announcement:

i've prepared

with enormous help from carol blinn,

my dear friend, who slaved over this job

through the dark of winter

(special edition with original printed cover and shifu left, 

photographed cover with printed sample on the right)

who did ALL the work

while i just printed and wove and wrote the stuff.

a little book for australia

about my journey through shifu

and printing.

after long conversations with carol 

who is a long time letterpress printer and book designer

(warwick press)

and who is still my friend after this herculean effort to be done,

and alicia bailey from the abecedarin gallery

one of a handful of book arts galleries in the u.s.,

i decided to use the nomenclature

that the book arts community overwhelmingly preferred:

"botanical pressure prints*.

fortunately the only confusion

with the word shifu

is the martial art also called shifu.

sigh.

these will be available first in australia

and back in the states 

at the end of march, when i will put a button in the shop to order.

there is an edition of 50

with 12 special ones that have an original print for the cover

and a little shifu square inside.

below is one of the limited edition of 12 

complete with blue berry prints

should you wish to have a copy

the price will be posted soon, 

and you can let me know and i will set one 

aside for you.

(you'll have to wait until after OZ)

*botanical*

alchemy has a certain glamour.

here is a little much cooked pot of walnut ink

water & 

a short slurp of vinegar,

it's lovely stuff.
more botanical alchemy.

*botanical pressure print: specifically, what many of us once called eco prints, then later called contact prints; book artists find it useful to describe this print process on paper, because the term "contact print" is a photo process on paper. clear as mud, right?