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A Correspondent’s Pad, new work from my residency at WNYBAC.

These letterpress-printed notepads are working tools embedded with fragments of distant landscapes. They emerged from entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Egypt, and Iceland. Through the slow pressure of hand-printing, photographic fragments transfer into tactile relief, impressions and exchanges of energy from one surface to another. The images invite multiple readings: rock formations become circuits, ice fields and sand dunes mirror industrial grids, the organic and technological fold into each other. Communication infrastructures and geological forms are brought side by side through a vintage printing technique. Technologies separated by centuries collapse into a single material encounter. The printing press, like the cell tower, is infrastructure rendered invisible through ubiquity, becoming landscape itself.These pads invite correspondence in all its senses: as communication, as relationship, as formal echo between phenomena sensing each other across space and time. The notepad is a protagonist, a correspondent mediating between writer and world, between memory (photographic) and speculation (the blank page). These are tools for thinking-with rather than about, devices for recording vibrations between things. Each printed image sits adjacent to blank space, inviting you to inscribe your own marks and thoughts alongside images already dense with signals.

Available at WNYBAC

Material Memory, now itness

mineral print
transition
exposure in situ
magnification

July, 2025
Val Taleggio, Italy


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