Skullminoes

I was trying to make a game a while back. I really got into dominoes, and Scrabble – tile-laying games – so I wanted to try and do something that operated on some sort of related principle.


I think the premise was that everyone is a wizard looking for a door into a parallel dimension, or something. I clearly get derailed at "wizard" every time, but what can you do. Plus, really, how can you improve on dominoes? I am a crack hand at dominoes – don't want to fight me, bro; I'm fast as lightning bro; you better use your Nikes, bro.

So, but – I stamped out all the cards, and they sat around for a while. I figured I might as well repurpose them. Now I have a whole bunch of business cards that people especially like getting on Halloween, but generally find Hot Topical.

Aquarium

My collaboration with Michael Clifford and the Small Rain has come to an end. We've seen all our current projects through, so bam. Until next time.

Man, this stamp... is. so. good. It's for adding that magic touch to each disc individually.

Inside cover to Michael Clifford's Aquarium.

And the outside – the paintings (inside & out) aren't mine, they're Edla Cusick's.

Stamps

I've been working on imprint stamps lately. I made one for myself to use on my work. In fact, I think everyone should, so I've been soliciting them. No... wait... wrong word... I'm looking for the opposite of solicit. ... Doesn't matter. I made up a word this morning (the honorific suffix schli), I'm not about to push my luck and go for two.

Index Press

hard at work, minor changes here and there

I'm much better at cutting drafts for prints than I ever was at doing the same for papers in college (although I suppose you don't cut papers)

if you order anything from me it'll have that on it somewhere

Cards Cards Cards (Cards); First Run

I've been a little behind in getting these to market – still am, in fact – but they're here to see. Contact me by clicking on the flying alien with the laser gun if you'd like to order some! Be sure to indicate quantity, address, and method of payment; and to direct any questions you may have regarding shipping or other considerations.

Availability: 7/8
Some have the dark half on top, while on others it is inverted (as above)

Availability: 6/9
One is in yellow ochre (as seen below), while the rest transition to red rather abruptly

Availability: 8/15
Ten are as pictured, while five are bordered

Availability: 17/24
A good first run; all in yellow ochre

Remember – no two are identical! (just close). All will be stamped with the Swimmy the Dish chop, and serialized.

Some Trajectories

I was involved with an excellent culture site until very recently, when it was taken down for reasons of artistic objective. I just made that up, I don't exactly know why it's down. I suspect it may be for good, though, so I'm going to repost a few things that left with the site.

I actually had a link up to the last one before – clearly recognizable if you've already checked out my other beast prints. I wrote a sweet blurb about it for So:

I want to read little-known secrets penned by well-known scholars of some forgotten caliphate; elaborated from a Pharaohnic death manual, a bound vellum volume captured during Alexandrine campaigns into The East, or both. The text in question will show certain influences, peculiar in their combination – Vedism, Kabbalah, the Island of Mu, and traces here and there recognizable only to those versed in the ways of the Incan khipu kamayuq. Impartial records will indicate the grimoire's passing inexplicably from Turkish petty-khans to the well-to-do of the Low Country; optimally, it will have been procured from the Nazis before the fall of Berlin.

To fulfill this desire, I must know a minimum of eight dead languages – no less than two of which I am to have invented myself.

Editor went with something else. Oh well – I'm like, halfway on the dead languages thing.


I go nuts for manticores. They're rockin'.

Cyclopes, too. What's up, in-the-plura~l?

This language has already been displaced by a successive script.

Genies

These prints represent the completion of what has been a long-term, multi-part project.

I noticed that something in my apartment causing bad luck, so I decided to take steps to remedy the misfortune. By chance I had several tins of six-month-old dried garlic on the window sill; because of garlic's special arcane properties, these pungent heads of allium had already gone a long way to absorbing the malefic essences – I just had to give them form.

So the garlics were sealed in plates (with glue, clearly), and plasticized (plastic also has strong anti-luck properties), and the genies then materialized on paper. That really just made them more dangerous, since before there'd only been an immaterial presence. Now the concentrated force manifested as a proper genie. This was, of course, necessary for the final stage of the process, where seals were applied to the papers. Without material form the unlucky genius would have continued to pervade my apartment, but once located it can easily be bound.

These sealed genies are still dangerous; like, if I burned the papers, they'd get out, and that'd suck. But it was the right thing to do. I shouldn't keep them all in one place, though – too powerful – so if you want a genie get in touch with me and we'll discuss your stewardship of evil. You could take them and burn them in your ex's apartment or something and release the evil there, but don't go blaming me for any consequences that might arise from that.

A seal.

An evil genie.

Another evil genie.

Another evil genie, again.

Fruitful

It didn't exactly take me all month to finish these guys – just to get the right posted. If you astutely observed that I'm missing one from the preps I posted, give yourself a cookie.

Collaprints

I know what I think these look like; but I don't want to say – it'd ruin the prints' value as a Rorschach test.

Bestiary II

Someone was asking me the other day what I wanted to do with the bestiary once it's done. I guess scan it, so I don't have these blurry images from my camera.

Bestiary

These are part of a linoleum cut series I've been working on. I'm really into the Voynich Manuscript. Although I haven't taken the time to explore it in any depth, I like the idea a lot. (this is true of my attitude towards many books). Monsters have also been a lifelong inspiration, so I settled on a Bestiary as a good project to explore carving.

The plates are written in an English alphabet loosely based on Hangul. I say loosely because English doesn't group its syllables gracefully into blocks, so it's highly imperfect.