Thursday, September 7, 2017

of books and meanings

There's nothing that captures both the limitless potential of the human mind and the existential meaningless of it all quite like a blank book. Books are repositories of knowledge, books are representations of everything that we haven't yet managed to achieve.

Neither of those lofty reasons are why I rarely make blank books. I rarely make blank books for the reason that most people never actually get around to using their blank books.

http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/amh.00009.html
Resist Much, Obey Little
Walt Whitman

However, I will be celebrating my two-year-landing-anniversary in Los Angeles by participating the Los Angeles Printer's Fair, October 14, 2017, booth B-17.

Come say hi!

I'll have a series of blank books for sale, in addition to the more customary artist's books. There will be a line of items whose sales proceeds are donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so may the blank pages encourage you to pen a list of actions to take, congressmen to call, and manifestos to compose.