The A&P Mom and Pop Print Shop

 A's silkscreen for a print job

Tried my hand at making a printing press for the wood engraving process.  I don't normally print more than 4-6 prints and going to use the old Vandercook at Aesthetic Union in SF seemed like overkill

 

My version of a hydraulic press.  Used my automotive floor jack.  Goes up and down quickly.

Pegged the four corners with half inch rebar. 

First print out of it.

From a photo of a horse on Mykines in the Faroe Islands.

 

Some blocks

 Me and my brother.

The eye of the horse

 

Some church festival in Ibiza on the left.  Walking up the hill from the cottage in the Faroes on the right

 Bonus pic.  Front gate.  Kinda is print-like.

 

-2+3=Net Positive One

                                              Cuidad Rodrigo 2025

This past year a couple of good and close humans I know left, but the ones they left behind, are putting forth three new humans.

So I guess that's the way it should be. 

Two of the three have arrived already, the third one coming in a few months.

 

Engraved three blocks of the first photos sent to me of the newbies.

Can you even imagine what's going on inside their heads, fresh out of darkness?

Zealia and Archer 

 

To give you more content.  Engraved some blocks from photos I took in Cuidad Rodrigo, España.

A progression of energies 

 

Early bonus pics

Leather and Espresso cup

 

Dobbing me in to the rozzers

 Four pieces of small wood were handed to me while walking to dinner.  We were on the streets in Cádiz, Spain.  The hander of these small pieces of wood to me was a cousin of my traveling companion that's living on the quiet side of an island of the Balearics, Spain.

His words.

"Remember that wood was liberated so make sure you're not dobbing me in to the rozzers.

Those bits of wood were samples of the wood used for some outside benching in a project I worked on about ten years ago.  The wood needed to be very strong to survive not only rain and cold but also skateboard dudes out grinding, graffiti carvers seeking to immortalise that Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona, and Obnoxious Substances running the gamut of cigarette stubbings, chewing gum gobbings and doubtless all of the 16 main categories of body fluid.  I remember one of the workers calling it an "African ironwood".  There are apparently many called ironwood, and I don't know which one this is.  Every once in a while I write to the various firms but have only had We Didn't Choose it replies. "

 As I listened to his story of the wood I already knew what I would make with them.

 

Got back to the US and started in on two simple bedside tables for Taylor and Nick.  I used a couple pieces of wood that’s been lying around the studio, getting moved here and there over the years, waiting for the right project to come alone.  A large piece of highly figured Eucalyptus and a piece of Madrone I got on the cheap because it was so warped.  Also used some Japanese Pagoda.

 

 

Picked up some seashell or coral pieces, not sure exactly what these things are, from a beach in Cádiz and cut those in half.  Cut out a couple of holes in the pieces of wood the cousin gave me and anchored seashells with epoxy.

 These adjustable Fireball squares are proving to be so handy and configurable.  Double stucked them to the back of the legs to cut long thin triangles out.

 New Neo Realism.  A reality view of how I work.  No curated cleanup of stuff.

 Alright, I hear you out there.  Less words MU, more photos.  I get it.  Photos.

 

Wait a minute!  After all these you still want bonus pics!?