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Posted in Bookart, Looking for Matthew on Feb 27th, 2015
Pictures of the clam-shell box containing six books, one per poem. my Smith-Corona typewriter I have been working since more than two years on a new book. A serious of books. Six in total. Each of them featuring one of Bill Denham’s poems from ‘Looking for Matthew’. The selection was made by Bill when he […]
Posted in Bookart, Exhibitions, Looking for Matthew on Mar 31st, 2014
It was a little bit of surprise to receive an email from the Pacific Center for the Book Arts PCBA – which was dormant for about two years. The 15th members show ‘BookWorks’ was the reason behind the email. From June 18th through September 6th, in the skylight gallery of the San Francisco Public Library, the […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Oct 22nd, 2013
… still working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. It has not been easy for me to continue working on this project. Of course there are always those excuses with ‘all the other deadlines’ but then… if I really wanted and if this had a deadline I would have had finished it long time ago. Six of […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Aug 28th, 2013
Headbands are glued on – next step: trimming the black BUGRA paper which I am using for endpapers. Same evening: measuring and cutting the recess for the book label. textblocks with trimmed endpapers – not glued on yet … looks so nice I had to take another one of the endpapers! measuring and cutting – […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Aug 25th, 2013
Yesterday evening I was working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. The bound text-blocks are prepared to be cased in. I first glued Thai Mulberry paper on to the spine and then added tiny little headbands – I just love them! Sometimes I wonder who actually will see them once the book is done. How many people […]
Posted in Bookart, Looking for Matthew on Mar 22nd, 2013
The following is the foreword of Bill Denham’s ‘Looking for Matthew’, a collection of poems. Matt and me — My heart went cold that September morning when the voice on my cell phone identified herself as an SFPD Homicide Detective. I knew Matthew was dead. Yet even as I felt the numbness come over me […]
Posted in Bookart, Looking for Matthew on Mar 14th, 2013
Bill has been working on the book since last year, now it is coming closer to a finish. During the last weeks he was nearly every day at Painted Tongue Press, working on ‘Looking for Matthew‘. An incredible project. Together with Mitsuko, I will help Bill to bind 15 of his letterpress printed books. The […]