All the World's a Surface...

I’ll be heading to the San Francisco Center for the Book on Saturday to take a one-day class in gelatin printing for artists books.

Whenever I’m getting ready for a session like this—and I expect we’ll get a LOT of prints made—I go into a week of delicious anticipation, seeing things all over the place I could use or bring. I’ve been looking today at pine needles; yesterday I got some feathers and suede cord. I’m looking at objects that are flat and that might work to have ink rolled onto them.

Looking at the world like this gives you glimpses into other things: this morning as I sipped my tea a stray hair on the counter resolved itself into a woman’s bottom, Rubensesque. I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t been looking slightly to the side, which I’m doing because of this upcoming class.

I’ll post some prints from my class here on Sunday or Monday…