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Images from the installation and pop-up show/sale of American Dreamboat in my house’s bike shed this Saturday. The show ended with a performance by Kat Steih and a reading of some of the poems that these prints illustrate.

Much love to everyone who came out to see the work!!! I couldn’t have asked for a better night to wrap up this project and my years at the stamps school.

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Celebrating Easter with rainbow rolls galore.

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Finally added the last layer to the burning house prints!!

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Printed a bunch of the zombies! Also, the boy zombie king was elected this weekend as president of the local student housing co-op organization. ANOTHER VICTIM OF PRINTMAKING PROPHESY?!

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The last print! Helios Flight 422! Last year I made a print about a plane crash, and the Malaysian plane was lost a few days after I began working on it. This year, a few days after I began this print, the Germanwings disaster happened. The question now is:

DID I BRING THESE DISASTERS ABOUT THROUGH PRINTMAKING PROPHESY?!

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Had a really long and enjoyable Sunday finally printing the train triptych!

Looking to definitely print these again with a different color palette and after carving a little bit more.

But two pieces of awesome news in the world of American Dreamboat:

I only have one more print to make: The Ghost Plane.

And, I found out today that I’m going to have this work in a solo show at a gallery in Ypsilanti next October!

I made my first screenprint and I am so happy!

I feel like such a baby not having done this process yet. I actually dreamt about screenprinting all night last night, that’s how excited to I was to do this today...

It was a real struggle! I had a hard time both figuring out the rhythm of printing and getting good registration. But I learned a lot from my problems and I think next time will go much smoother.

Hell yeah, learning is so cool. And the fibers studio is amazing to work in. Also gotta give props to the print studio coordinator for teaching students skills outside of formal classes.

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YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS! NOW GO OUT AND BE FABULOUS, OR DON’T, STAY INSIDE AND GRAIN A STONE, IT’S FINE - JUNE WAYNE THINKS YOU’RE AWESOME SMART RADICAL EVERYTHING

As planned, I spent a good part of break carving the keys for these three color woodcuts and watching trash TV. Can't wait to get the color blocks cut these week and see these babies brought to life with pastel gradients.

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Finally got these guys printed! Made the biggest rookie mistake ever, and forgot to reverse the numbers on the stones, but fixed it up easily with some scratching out and a counter-etch, WHOOT!

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Still drawing on these two stones, titled "Weight I & II" which illustrate the poem that makes up the last chapter in "American Dreamboat."

Hopefully I'll have these babies and one more stone printed by this weekend so that I can move onto woodcuts finally!!! My spring break plans are to watch all the seasons of Daria and carve like a maniac. :))))

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