little linoleum postcard prints

made in my casita in Taos. Kitchen table press, indeed.

mushroomed, mossy typewriter

Say, a Remington built of balsa wood, its parts glued together like a boyhood model; delicate, graceful, submissive, as ready to soar as an ace. Better, a carved typewriter, hewn from single block of sacred cypress; decorated with mineral pigments, berry juice, and mud; its keys living mushrooms, its ribbon the long iridescent tongue of a lizard. An animal typewriter, silent until touched, then filling the page with growls and squeals and squawks, yowls and bleats and snorts, brayings and chatterings and dry rattlings from the underbrush.” — Tom Robbins

eye-popping goodness in Taos

Big Happy Guitar

Konnichi-huahua
Santa Fe RR
Snakes on a wall
The neighbors in the alfalfa fields
Hot rod
Mr. Fuzzy PantsSkeins

wood & voodoo

My great new friend, Joel, has invited me to use the C&P platen, his drawers of type and all the furniture, letting and slugs I need. Luckily, I'm more focused on carving these days and haven't actually jumped onto the big press just yet, but its so beautiful, and such great fun out at his shop that I wanted to share. These are my Taos friends.


Henrietta the chicken and Cole.


Lucky Seven the spotted pony and Georgie his girlfriend.



Lilith and Whiskey in the shop.

The letterpress shop is a magical place- even Lily agrees that she just loves it there. I'm gonna teach her how to set her name and print some posters up for her. Plus, they have grapes! And sunflowers! And broad skies facing the craggy, majestic Sangre de Cristo mountains, with soggy creeks to wade in and watch the Russian olives and cattails turn to fall.

Vintage videorecorders. That's all I heard.

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Since I've been so terrible at posting, I might as well throw in this series of drawing to finished printed poster, which was commissioned for the T-10 Video Festival in Oakland, before I left for New Mexico in late July. Two colors (plum and good-n-plenty pink) on salvaged cream colored papers from the Center for Creative ReUse. Many thanks to Sam for setting all of the wood and metal type and for help on the Vandercooks. Who knew he'd be a total natural at this?

the typewriter series

I started carving images of typewriters, a sort of autobiographical take on things if you look at it in the proper light, here at my summer residency in Taos, New Mexico. As I am working diligently on a first (shitty) draft of the Shigeyoshi Murao biography here, it seemed apt that the writing would somehow leach into the illustration work.



But then, my dear friend and writer, Susan Ito, wrote to tell me that she was interested in putting together chapbooks (one for fiction, one for essays) and that got me all hot and bothered too. Continuing on the theme of manual typewriters, I've come up with two more. The image of the paper cranes has a rather dull title right now "Fiction" (please help inspire me to the land of more appropriate names).



If all goes well, we can work on putting these chapbooks together for release by this winter, don'tcha think?