Of course, I was on a lucky streak with printing so it makes sense that I ran into a lot of trouble with this one.

I started with handset type, dark green ink, and gold modtone paper from French Paper Co. I was struggling with the press, and the prints looked terrible. A last minute inspiration: I photocopied all my prints in black and white, and riso printed it all, including the pattern from the paper. Sloppy but I finished.

No question as it was my birthday month and clearly I needed a break. Printed at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland.

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