Early Book Arts and Letterpress Explorations......

("A man on his knees is building his house....", first line from a poem titled "A Man and His House" by MPW; 14" x 11")




("A man on his knees is building his house....", first line from a poem titled "A Man and His House" by MPW; 14" x 11")
"Crossing Blue" - oil on canvas, 53" x 64", 2013
I had forgotten about these small collages until recently coming across them in a drawer. The base layer of each is a page from a cookbook & manual on butchering I found in a used bookstore, written and published in mid-20th c. Czechoslovakia (present day Czech Republic). More can be found here.
Three of my monotypes are included in the Touchstone Center for Crafts Faculty Exhibition in the Speyer Gallery at Fallingwater. More information on the exhibit can be found here.
RUST BELT TALES issue of ABOUT PLACE JOURNAL
Featured in the RUST BELT TALES issue on the online ABOUT PLACE JOURNAL, are my two poems In the Valley of Fire My Parents Are Sleeping and When All You Own Is Anger. Many thanks to editor Michael McDermott, not only for putting together a wide arc of writing on the Rust Belt experience, but also for managing to get permission to include multiple views of Diego Rivera's amazing Detroit Industry Murals in this issue as well.