⁉️ 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 to folks in 5 countries (Norway, Canada, Australia, England, and United States) as well as Washington, D.C. and 34 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, 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, Ox-Bow's 'The Betsy' gallery and the 'Floating' show on the Ox-Bow Lagoon, the Briar Press Instagram account, the Penland School of Craft's Letterpress+Print Zine Collection, at a Dublin critical tech conference, a Little Free Library in Philly, the Virginia Festival of the Book Literary Marketplace, The Data-Sitters Club, the lovely, free, non-Substack Amplifying Trans Joy newsletter, Brandon Walsh's forthcoming book!, an issue of the *Looming* critical tech zine, and The Partners in Print 'Print Futures' talk series (video!) 😎
Transponder Project: Queer Historical Letterpress. Birch lasercut type for a queer-historical remix projectLetterpress boat sail and DIY boat sailing in the Ox-Bow School lagoon for the August 2026 "Floating" showHandcut craft foam sunrise, three registered passes; printed during my August 2026 Ox-Bow School Longform Artist ResidencyLasercut giant 11x17" printers fist from an edited historical image on bamboo, mounted type high on eucalyptus and printed"Broken" is a relative term. Large text is entirely printed with broken wood type. Smaller text on disability & craft, identity & value under capitalism"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 distances"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 birchCalifornia 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??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 oneLetterpress on an etching press, allowing larger-scale prints. Glitter mica on inkLasercut, rainbow-inked bamboo block of Verdeu's historical nasturtiums art, edited to have spaces for typeAntifacsist Veggie Puns. This machine kales fascism! Complexly nonlinear typesetting, joyful antifascist puns, and an actual cabbage slice printed (safely) on VandercookSappho's Fragment 147; her lifetime was ~630-570 B.C. The third piece of the triptych is an uninked impressionThis 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")Marbled ink on text. Printed at the Ox-Bow Longform artist residencyCritical Tech Luddites series. Uses a historical image of a "Luddite general" in whiskers and a dress, which I edited and lasercut into bamboo for printingVaporware 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 lasercutRisograph printing: three layers of ink & gradient. Updating of 1968 Soviet invasion resistance textCraft is technology & digital method. Created for a digital humanities conference's collaborative mail art packetHope Is a Thing with Wing". Original text by me; origami crane drawing by me in marker, scanned, lasercut into acrylic, printedI 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 typeHTML is the letterpress of the digital world. Lasercut acrylic, lead type, craft foam, antibird netting"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 typeA computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. 1974 IBM Training Manual relevant today to AIAnti-fascist Bookmakers. Multiple book arts puns built on Woody Guthrie's "All you fascists *bound* to lose"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, namewiseI 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 work...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 printingTruth. I've even got a peer-reviewed article on itThis little light of mine, I'm gonna let it burn away fascism. Protest in joy like Sister Corita Kent!Printer selfie. It me!
