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There Are Things Too Marvelous To Be Spoken Of

Though a tiny book without words, except for the title page and colophon, this book packs a tornadic punch. For looking fairly simple it was a very complicated piece to produce. I had to figure out how to drop a 3-color reduction linoleum cut from page to page, with the blocks perfectly placed each time: one color over the previous color. All of that on one piece of paper printed on both sides, then trimmed, and folded and bound, with everything lining up. The tornado approaching and then dropping out of the sky from page to page, to destroy what was beneath. I regret that I didn't make more books in the edition.

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Knowing what I had gone through several months before the Artist Educator Week at the Penland School of Craft, at the final showing there were teary eyes upon looking at this little book. The title shows the awe I felt in having gone through the storm and its grandeur, and surviving.

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A tornado-driven miniature book in an edition of 22 copies, written, designed, letterpress-printed and bound in black Arches printmaking paper by Steve Miller. It includes two reduction linoleum cuts by the maker. 2" x 3". Spring 2012. nfs
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Miller: "Several months after a 2011 tornado destroyed our home and pecan orchard while we were in the basement I was invited to participate in an Artist Educator Week at the Penland School of Craft. There were a hundred amazing makers there. We could choose whatever studio we wanted to work in for four days, and the natural thing would have been to choose a studio outside of one's comfort zone. But all I wanted to do was to be at the #4 Vandercook proof press in the letterpress studio and somehow get the tornado trauma off my back. This small book helped me recover."

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