Uncut, finished poster
First and second press runs
The linoleum block
How to Set Yourself on Fire is a recent novel by Julia Dixon Evans, who came to Colorado College as part of the visiting writers series. As a student worker at The Press at CC, I was commissioned to design and print a stack of 70 posters for the event. In order to achieve a crisp look without printing in white, I combined laser engraved text with a hand-cut reduction linocut. The book cover of How to Set Yourself on Fire was designed by Matt Revert.
Final prints
Sketch
Camp and kitsch, macabre and prismatic, Skelebabe promises a wild ride into the afterlife. Linocut.
Final print
Sketches
Proof print
Peace Pigeon. An early experiment with woodcut. This print was inspired by the resilience of the city birds in San Francisco, close to my home in the Bay Area.
Rats playing in an observation tank
Detail of BARS x SAWDUST
BARS x SAWDUST
Handcut stencil (later scrapped)
Observational sketch
While most of science is carried out on the backs of lab rats, they hardly receive the thanks they deserve. For BARS x SAWDUST, I made studies of several of the rats I worked with at my summer lab job in the neuroscience department. These studies helped me put together a woven print work composed of prints of bars (in blue) and sawdust (yellow). I made these prints from lasercut stencils of the bars of a cage, and yellow ink mixed with pencil shavings, respectively. I wove parts of paper rats into the piece, implying both dismemberment and play. Through the unsettling nature of the work, I hope to convey the paradox of the joyful energy of these rats juxtaposed against their grisly fates.
Setting type
Inked for proofs
