i spend a lot of time waxing poetic, i find the mundane excruciatingly beautiful, i write often in a little notebook and glorify the everyday actions that make life wonderful, i find that these words are not enough, it feels important for me to make the words more, elevate them, i need to somehow crush the embarassment of writing a poem about my walk home and on one hand allow it to be less serious and also take on a new life. prose can be elevated through letterpress, illustrator, indesign, and reduction print. i have so much to say but i must hide it behind a franklin gothic veneer and accompany it with imagery that hopefully brings new meaning and keeps you interested.
at my senior exhibit showing the culmination of my undergraduate work at lesley university i made a zine bookshelf to encourage people to interact with my work, urging people to read the different zines, and hopefully have them resonate with one and want to bring it home. it was so rewarding to watch people interact with my work and to hear that it was meaningful to them and it was of course an honor to have people enjoy the zines enough to want to keep them!
i made this zine in january, 2025, i type-set this poem/diary entry in lead type and carved all the imagery as linoleum reduction prints. i did this project as a challenge for myself to see how i could print lead-type and reduction prints at the same time on one pass, there was lots of trial and error but i had a lot of fun and got a beautiful and nostalgic result.
