⁉️ things I've printed with include: red cabbage sliced type-high, my pinkie fingerprint, seeds from the first flower I ever grew from seed, bubble wrap, material I lasercut into movable type & printing blocks (boxwood, cherry, white ash, hard maple, pine, bamboo, birch, eucalyptus; acrylic; hard lino), the label on the positive lockup bar, letterpress furniture, craft foam, anti-bird netting, jello (jellygraph, aka hectography), alcohol (spirit duplication), a round of masking tape on its side, a KN95 mask, ... and of course new, used, and broken lead & wood type!
🗺️ I've sold my art to folks in: Canada, Australia, England, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.🏛️ My work's been viewable in places including the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at SIUE, University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library (Research Data & Digital Scholarship), U-M Book Arts Studio, the Briar Press Instagram account, the Penland School of Craft's august Letterpress Studio Bathrooms :), Virginia Book Arts (formerly VA Center for the Book), in Dublin via my letterpress seconds collaged+zined by critical tech conference-goers, the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab, the Virginia Festival of the Book Literary Marketplace, The Data-Sitters Club, the lovely, free, non-Substack Amplifying Trans Joy newsletter, and Brandon Walsh's forthcoming book! 😎
"Broken" is a relative term. Large text is entirely printed with broken wood type. Smaller text on disability & craft, identity & value under capitalismCalifornia Pizza Typecase. "California Job case" is a common layout for movable type organization, and California Pizza Kitchen was a popular food chain. This is their child??Antifacsist Veggie Puns. This machine kales fascism! Complexly nonlinear typesetting, joyful antifascist puns, and an actual cabbage slice printed (safely) on VandercookTransponder Project: Queer Historical Letterpress. Birch lasercut type for a queer-historical remix projectI am simply too floof to wolf. The mascot of my press is the New Zealand sheep who escaped its farm & grew wool so thick ("too floof") wolves tried but couldn't kill it ("to wolf"). A metaphor both for being sure of ourselves regardless of what others think, and of our ultimate community interdepence (it isn't healthy for a sheep to go so long unsheared). Created using acrylic and wood blocks of a historical sheep photo and cyberwave sunset I lasercut and inked, then printed with lead type"May you become the blessing we need in this world" (from Sarah Werner). Text from the conclusion of Werner's zine "Pomegranates". Uses a catchword ("pomegranate") in Hebrew I lasercut in birch"A noiseless patient spider" (from Walt Whitman). Whitman's poem of seeking human connection despite our distancesComplex daredevil typesetting mimicking spider bodies and webs, for "A noiseless patient spider", Walt Whitman's poem of seeking human connection despite our distancesVaporware Luddites. Maximalist text & feelings about AI in higher ed, labor, and beyond. 9" tall "Luddite general", danse macabre skeleton, retro Mac, and "glitch their systems" are all blocks I lasercutCraft is technology & digital method. Created for a digital humanities conference's collaborative mail art packetCritical Tech Luddites series. Uses a historical image of a "Luddite general" in whiskers and a dress, which I edited and lasercut into bamboo for printingA computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. 1974 IBM Training Manual relevant today to AIAbolition Is Elementary. The first three prints in a series; each will be accompanied by a hand-lettered sheet of gradeschool penmanship paper sharing my thoughts about a given quote, like a homework assignment response to a promptAnti-fascist Bookmakers. Multiple book arts puns built on Woody Guthrie's "All you fascists *bound* to lose"ICE Out camapign. Print created at lowest possible cost while retaining quality, to allow me to send free "ICE Out" window signs to anyone in the U.S. who requests one"The revolution won't be televised (because of the dildos)". I printed Melissa Kaercher's remixes of revolutionary quotes, honoring the folks in MN and elsewhere mocking ICE using dildos (it's a whole thing, and power hates to be mocked!) & otherwise protecting folks from evil. The bubble font is my lasercut acrylic, set alongside traditional lead typeThis Is Not A Place of Honor, But It Could Be A Place Of Hope. A remix of Warde's "This Is a Printing-Office", the Sandia Labs Report ("This is not a place of honor..."), & my own critical tech writing ("...but it could be a place of hope")This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it burn away fascism. Protest in joy like Sister Corita Kent!"The moral arc won't bend itself."My advocacy prints free pile often includes layered works like theseLibraries could, should be for everyone (except nazis). (Haven't been, still aren't—not all, not enough of them, not for everyone—not yet. <3, your librarian-printer.)"Infrastucture is something we owe to one another". A quote from a conference talk by Meg Smith reprinted for mutual aid fundraising, as the original sold outRun toward the fire. May we run toward the fire, the crisis, to save those still inside & put those fires outThis machine kills fascism. I lasercut three acrylic printing blocks, based on my abstraction of a painted design by a colleague, and printed them in a layered stack to produce a more three-dimensional heartHope Is a Thing with Wing". Original text by me; origami crane drawing by me in marker, scanned, lasercut into acrylic, printedExamples of my trans justice & joy advocacy printing. I designed and lasercut the typehigh maple block "Printed with love by a trans printer & ally" to contribute to trans representation in printing <3; allies & trans folks can check off the appropriate boxes, and the trans flag outline is filled in with blue and pink marker or colored pencil"I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as seeds—before we're buried". Building on the protest call "They tried to bury us; they didn't know that we were seeds". Hydroponics means growing plants in water rather than soil; when done in a glass jar, you can actually watch the roots growing. Let us give folks their flowers (recognize and celebrate them) while they're alive to appreciate them, not just after their deathsBe the vibrant glitch you want to see in the world. Used a tape and hand brayer approach to mask faces in a halftone photographic print block; I lasercut the two words in interesting fontsHTML is the letterpress of the digital world. Lasercut acrylic, lead type, craft foam, antibird nettingI like Big Wood Type (& smol type, 2) & i cannot lie. With custom trans printer block I lasercut in maple"Letterpress for the people! Silly letterpress for the joyful people!". This print has around 15 color & paper variants, as I feel strongly about letterpress being a community art, and joy being integral to its advocacy workI may like letterpress"To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next bathroom stall" (from Kim Addonizio). Circular typesetting"Moby Dick is about whales" (from Heather Froehlich). From a humorous text-analysis-related tweet, using a 16th-century whale illustration I lasercut into bamboo and printedDaredevil typesetting from my print of some of June Jordan's "From Sea to Shining Sea"Actual 15th-century dog's names, with a mix of historical and DIY lasercut dog images. It warms my heart that people hundreds of years ago also knew their dog was the best & wanted everyone (and especially the dog) to know it, namewise...Some of the book arts tutorial & research ZineBakery zines I've authoredLetterpress for All!. Zine series introducing letterpress to beginners & teaching toward making it a more accessible community artform, including 160+ pages over 4 zines that have been peer reviewed by *Feminist Media Histories* and will be published with my introductory essay in the special issue "Craftwork in the Digital". This spread of pages is from the zine teaching typesetting and Vandercook Uni printingPrinting methods. Example of experimental & advanced letterpress techniquesSome of my work designing, lasercutting, & printing with type & image blocks I've fabricated, including multilingual, queered, and historical type & imagesTruth. I've even got a peer-reviewed article on itPrinter selfie. It me!
