Engraving Publisher's Journal

The publisher produces the bases for living prints with support for all the players and keeps communications clear and on course.

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He asked me if I would put out a mailing on the fact he was being included in the new book by Lois Allan. I told him when it came out, I would. He should understand that until it is done, it isn't done. Besides, I've only sold one print, and I haven't heard a confirmation about the Canadian.

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He always works on at least two projects as far as I can see. Two plates at a time (plus the silver-point and that silly little landscape). Glen warned me a long time ago he would divide his allegiance at the expense of "Unity". I didn't know what he meant at the time.

So I asked the artist and he said he wants to be sure he's breaking the rules, and the only way he can figure out how to do that and still get anything done is to always think in pairs. "Interfere, always interfere," he said, and then, "Goethe didn't say that," and he seemed pleased with himself.

He stayed with his drawing. I asked him whose rule is that--the interference rule? That seemed to fluster him. He didn't answer. The phone rang and we never talked about it again. But I like both the things he's doing. He said he's going to tell Lois--the writer in Oregon--if it's the Northwest she really wants to describe she's gonna have to know the rules and how he deliberately broke them. Every one he found, he broke.

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He had turned the kitchen and dining room into a studio. I knew it was temporary. One of the two copperplates was on the bar, the other was half-buried in a stack of papers, open books and a freshly-started watercolor. Also, he had laid a painting of Chief Sitting Bull beside the watercolor. "For the colors," he said. In the living room he had spread out six more paintings--all oils dated in the early 1900's. "My great-grandmother's." he said.

I am wondering if he's going to get any more engraving done before the next appointment with the printer. Then I noticed he'd been drawing on his mezzotint plate; looks like he's thinking of a major revision of the plan!

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When I stopped in to see how it went last night he had a piece of tracing paper taped on what I assumed was the first trial proof. He was bent over the paper. The lighting was bad where he was bent over the drawing, but he had managed, freehand, a reflection of the calculus exercise. As I studied it, I realized it was squeezed down to about half its original height. He was eye-balling it.

The pattern reminded me of a map I had seen, and it also looked like a wood-grain pattern. When you think about it, landforms and wood-grain take years to form. If it takes this artist a couple hours. That's pretty fast. On the surface of it, I think he could have done it even faster with a computer or similar display system for calculus functions.

Artist's Diary
The artist provides the vision
and imagery of the living print,
laboring after the compelling image.

Curator's Log
The curator is seldom seen but is
always seeing to it that the living prints'
records are correct and rules followed.

Printer's Notes
The printer performs many tasks to keep prints alive,
crafting and designing solutions to problems
the artist, curator and publisher propose.

Professor's Papers
The professor explains the living print,
the history of printmaking,
and keeps the academic community informed.

	Artist's Diary	The artist provides the vision and imagery of the living print, laboring after the compelling image.
	Curator's Log	The curator is seldom seen but is always seeing to it that the living prints' records are correct and rules followed.
	Printer's Notes	The printer performs many tasks to keep prints alive, crafting and designing solutions to problems the artist, curator and publisher propose.
	Professor's Papers	The professor explains the living print, the history of printmaking, and keeps the academic community informed.