“A New Rescue” is a five-color letterpress print incorporating antique type with new metal blocks made from my drawings. I like to layer representational imagery with pattern and arrange the parts in an abstract or narrative way. In this print I have included imagery of a butterfly, seashell, rose of sharon blossom and a wooden boat, each growing from a vine that originates from a tree stump. The boat to me symbolizes the idea of a rescue and the stump or tree represents a source of life.
I used a vintage letterpress block I have in combination with three separate blocks I had made from my original drawings. I passed this print through my 1930’s era, non-electric Vandercook proof press five times, inked and cranked all by hand.
This is a five-color letterpress print on Rives Heavyweight 175gsm paper.
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