Intaglio Printmaking & Fine Press Books
In college I worked in the copy center at ACCD. Being penniless, I couldn't afford gifts for my family so I wrote & illustrated stories for them, and "printed" them on the copiers. Later, assisting Tony Zepeda of Gemini in the print studio, I got to use the presses and ended up turning those books into fine press books with zinc plate etchings.
DOMUS LIF†
"Domus Lif" - the story of a small boy's unexpected journey through life was printed using a rather experimental photo film transfer technique and acid/steel wool distressing. I then furthered the distressed look with sloppy monoprint inking.
Copies of these books are in the permanent collections of the Huntington Library, The UCLA/Hammer Museum (Grüenwald Collection), & The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Detail of the original ballpoint drawing of the parents
The Goblin Tarot
The Goblin Tarot was my final project for Art Center. Bound in a soft leather folio and printed on nepalese paper, it's meant to be a book of tarot as written by the goblins & faeries, then translated by some unknown person.
I drew the illustrations in ballpoint pen then etched half them on zinc plates using traditional aquatinting & hardground techniques. The other half were printed via letterpress - as was the goblin typography. 8 copies were printed. It is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in DC.
