You go!

Power of the Press Fest was on Sunday, and it was a really great event. I displayed my prints and talked to people about them. I wasn’t feeling ready to sell them and haven’t been in a “selling things” headspace, and people seemed to understand. I forgot to take photos of my booth, but Joel shot a quick video and put it up on Signal-Return’s Instagram—it’s a Highlight so I can’t link directly to it, but here’s a screenshot.

I made a little zine to give away at the event that explains my print project—if you weren’t able to grab one, here’s the front and here’s the back. You can print it out and then follow this video to learn how to fold it.

The zine I made to give away at Power of the Press Fest—the cover says, “You May You Think! You Just You Feel You Were You Go!” My dog Bernie is in the background of the photo.

From here I’m going to ruminate on my project and decide how to go forward. I think I am ready to start putting my own spin on things. So far it has felt like an exercise in something new, and I’ve been borrowing heavily from Corita's process (a few people at the event said unprompted the prints reminded them of her work), so it doesn’t quite feel like mine yet. But it has felt good to be back in the studio, following a thread on something and letting it develop—a welcome re-education in discipline. I’ve got an intense six to eight weeks ahead of me as I finish up the copyediting certificate, and I recently started a second job constructing frames at Mutual Adoration (hence the bandaid in the photo—I nicked myself with the orbital sander), so I’m giving myself permission to step out of the print studio for a bit and quietly make plans for what’s next.