J'ai passé une bonne partie des mois de juin et juillet sur ce dessin, et j'avais arrêté parce que je bloquais sur la fin et je l'ai fini aujourd'hui
Des chardons, des papillon, des végétaux, du chaos incompréhensible qui fourmille et dont sort l'harmonie, et des bestioles bizarres. j'avais en tête l'idée de cultiver nos épines pour protéger les plus vulnérables, et ainsi pouvoir fleurir, se transformer, expérimenter, créer de la beauté et laisser s'exprimer nos étrangetés malgré les galères et les difficultés et les aggressions.
La rudesse et le chaos qu'on a dans les marges sont plus beaux que l'ordre et la fausse élégance des gens qui se croient normaux et qui ont peur de la réalité, de la diversité et de la nature.
1. untitled, 2021, 78 x 66 inches, acrylic ink on panel, private collection 2. untitled, 2020, 78 x 66 inches, acrylic ink on panel, collection of the amore pacific museum, seoul, south korea viamore
[image description: 7 photos of a letterpress-printed card deck, and the formes of handset type and linoleum block illustrations used to print it. The Inscryption card deck is a 52-card playing deck (plus title card and two jokers), where each royal and ace features a beast or character from Leshy’s version of the game in Inscryption. the backs of the cards were printed with an approximation of the in-game card deck made from rule and decorative lead type; each pip and number from a forme of lead type; and each illustration from a carved linoleum block. character assignments for each illustrated card under the cut. end description.]
hi hi hi Desert Bus for Hope comes around again starting Nov. 12th! i have donated an item this year that is up for giveaway from 6pm-12 on the 17th, and it is an Inscryption-based playing card deck aimed to haunt someone’s home for Charity :)
i love every one of the horrible little creatures in Leshy’s deck and did not like to have to choose, but i felt like the ranks really fell into place once I’d bounced a couple ideas around. feel free to argue with my suit assignment choices. I have strong but inarticulate vibes-based opinions and occasionally geometry-based opinions.
i don’t think i actually have a ton to say about printing process on this one at the moment?? it was. the amount of work that it probably looks like it was. it was very fun and i’m pretty proud of it and grateful for the opportunity for my obsessive impulses to transmogrify into some actual, tangible purpose :))
and i do genuinely love designing card decks for letterpress despite how impractical it is. Last time i did my best to design for a Practical, Reliable Yield of 75 decks, so it was a cool different problem to make Yield: 1 even a little bit more approachable than it sounds. i have a bunch of process recordings and not very much idea what’s the best way to condense it down to a watchable length, so if anybody has a vote about what they’d like to see/specific questions I’m all ears. anyway! there’s some disorganized snippets here:
“blah blah romance novels aren’t intellectual” i’m sorry that love - one of the central pieces of human existence - isn’t fucking intellectual or important enough for you 🙄
