Relay Replay Press now part of my regular website

I finally redesigned my website which now contains the Relay Replay Press books and information. Although It perhaps needs to be a bit more obvious? It's under Prints & Artist's Books, and from there, you see Relay Replay Press. I wonder if I need a link from the front page. [I just now added a link under the Highlights section on the front page, maybe that will help.]

Here's the website: fingerstothebone.com, and here's the Relay Replay Press page.

Mare and Foal, the first Relay Replay Press print

I have started to work with the wife of an elderly gentleman—a WWII veteran who served in the South Pacific—to create the next Relay Replay Press book with him. In order to fund this project, I have created Mare and Foal, a varied edition Gocco print. The money raised from selling this print will pay for materials and my time to go out to The Dalles for a week in July and work with this gentleman. In the mean time, I have started to go out to meet with him, to get to know him a bit, before we start to work on our project.

You can read more about the history of the Relay Replay Press projects in this article in The Oregonian.

The Dalles is about an hour and half away by car from Portland, where I'm located. A donor is providing me with a place to stay, which is greatly appreciated. Your purchase of a print will help pay for printmaking/bookbinding supplies, papers and any other materials necessary to edition 20 copies of this book, as well as my time for one week.

There are two versions of this print. Copies 1-90 are printed in 5 colors (the "Pastel" version, see above) and 91-141 in two (the "Sepia" version, see below). The image area is 6"x6" and paper size is 9"x10". Prints are numbered, signed, and dated.

To read a bit about the process of creating this print, see the making of Mare and Foal.

Please use the PayPal buttons to the right to purchase a print. Thank you very much for your support of this Relay Replay Press project!

Relay Replay makes it in the Oregonian

Inara Verzemnieks of the Oregonian did this article on the Relay Replay books today. It's truly a wonderful write-up; I am thrilled. I also love the photographs by Motoya Nakamura, staff photographer at the Oregonian.

This was an interview that was scheduled way back, but due to the storms, we kept on having to reschedule it. So unfortunately, it didn't come out until today, and the show at the John Wilson Special Collections had already come down. But I'm happy to report that the Arts Center at Hillsboro, where Intersect/Parallel is at, is willing to add the Relay Replay books to that show, even though we're already part way through Intersect/Parallel.

I've heard from so many friends today, some of whom I hadn't heard from in ages, so that was a very nice side effect. And my artist friends are all impressed with the write-up, thrilled that she wrote a sensitive and very in-depth piece.

Inara really got it—there were things that, after the interview, I thought "oh, I should've mentioned that," but I decided to leave it alone and let her do what she does...and she did a great job! All the things that I didn't say, she connected.