I’ve put my own personal shame in a blender and am still holding down the emulsify button and still holding it down.

Can I keep printing by hand? Why can’twe afford even a teeny tiny press?

Can I print on a print? Print on a canvas? Print on unstretched linen? The back of a cotton T-shirt?

Once, I believed this was breaking the rules. Now I say, gently, fuck these rules. I’ve decided to go for it. I love the ability to move around and with the medium, ,in the same way my almost three-year-old niece plays with bubbles.. Asthe bathtub. As an undergraduate, my limited coursework in printmaking introduced mart-makingm of art-making that was restrictive. I am so pissed at that: how wrong was I about the entire medium!

Printmaking challenges my mind and body to plan, focus, and calm the hell down. Today I love it. I still struggle with it, but that doesn’t stop me from playing.