Description
When life hands you lemons…make lemonade!
This is a hand-bound journal with a hand-pulled, letterpress cover (in fact, everything was done by hand, the hard way!). This piece is a collaboration between Chandler O’Leary of Anagram Press and Jessica Spring of Springtide Press, made from the “lemons” presented by the pitfalls of printing by hand. One hundred percent of the proceeds of this journal will be donated to the Dead Feminists Fund, which supports nonprofits that help women and girls create change in their own communities.
When we were printing our nineteenth Dead Feminist broadside, “Focal Point,” featuring a quote by photographer Imogen Cunningham, we had a few prints that ended up with imperfect ink or slightly wonky registration. We couldn’t include those prints in the edition of broadsides, but since we still liked the results, we decided to crop the prints down to our favorite parts, and make “lemonade!”
This blank journal features gold text (“The Seeing Eye”) and a portion of Imogen Cunningham’s camera, printed in shimmery metallic ink on deep black paper. This pocket-sized book is ideal for jotting down artful notes and sketches—or for jotting down everything your seeing eye sees. Turn heads while you take notes, or give a thoughtful, beautiful gift to the photographer in your life.
You can learn more about the original Dead Feminist broadside here.
Hand-sewn pamphlet stitch journal with rounded corners
Blank inside
Size when closed: 3.75 x 3.75 inches
Size when open: 7.5 x 3.75 inches
10 blank sheets (40 pages)
Cream-colored pages inside
Note: as these are individually handmade by cutting down larger and imperfect prints, please allow for slight differences in print registration and image cropping than what is pictured here.
Cover was letterpress printed on an antique Vandercook Universal One press. Journal is made with acid-free paper and hand-stitched with Irish linen thread.
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This original artwork is copyright Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring 2014. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this print. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
WA state residents are subject to sales tax.
This journal will ship flat in a protective mailer, via the United States Postal Service.
