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Satellites

A series of prints commemorating defunct satellites which remain in orbit today, made by letterpress print collage; two images from the same linoleum block were combined for each image, one black ink on white paper, one silver ink on black paper. PROSPERO x-3 (satellite commemoration), 2012. 22.5 x 13.75 in, letterpress print collage, edition of 10. Launched October 28, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, prints Tagged With: space

Space Codex Facimilie

Space Codex Facimilie, 2007. 10.5 x 13 inches, open, letterpress printed from both sides of handset metal type on both sides of paper. Front of envelope reads, "In 1977, a message representing Earth was compiled and launched into space with the Voyager interstellar missions. Reproduced here is all of the text included in the message—which also contains spoken greetings, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, books, collaboration, prints Tagged With: space, text

One Thousand Orbits

Visualizing debris in space, using information and data from NASA as resources. Each line light grey line indicates a probable orbit around the earth, the 3-dimensional orbit is flattened to the page using a map projection. The shape of the projection used is debossed into the image. Each of the one thousand orbital lines shown represents more than 600 pieces of debris orbiting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, prints Tagged With: space

Backsides of Type

Print series. Texts selected for their distinctive cultural, legal, or linguistic structures are typeset, and then flipped over and used as printing plates. Inquire about availability/price of these prints         … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, prints Tagged With: text

A Block of Alleys

A Block of Alleys, 2005. 6 x 9.5 x 2 in. closed. Etching and letterpress printed, edition of 10. A Block of Alleys is an accordion-style book which depicts all of the alleys in one block in Queens, New York. The buildings on each side of the alley are facing one another, so the city block is paged through, alley by alley, as the book is viewed. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books, prints Tagged With: NYC

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