It was letterpress that originally brought me to Pyramid Atlantic over 20 years ago. The tactile connection to words and thoughts through individual letters compiled in the press bed fundamentally informs the work that I make on Pyramid's Vandercook presses, as well as my understanding of those words.

Relatively high-tech in the rest of my life, in art, I am drawn to older techniques —hand-carved wood blocks for printing, manual quilting, individually set lines of lead text printed on a decidedly middle of the last century letterpress. The limits of these processes and their time-consuming natures cause me to slow, to look more closely at the images around me and the images in front of me. And they make me appreciate the benefits and appropriate uses of modern technologies.

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