Fire’s Burning

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Fold-over greeting card – set of 20
“Fire’s Burning,” camp song
Printed in winter, 2018

Inspired by a childhood permeated with woodsy adventures and singing songs around the campfire.

Letterpress ornament flame detail printed in yellow ink on deckle edged printmaking paper.Red and yellow printmaking ink being mixed to make orange with ornament border design inked up.Two-sided new years greeting card featuring “Fire’s Burning” campfire song with ornament details.“Merry New Year” text printed red in uppercase type and framed with a decorative border detail.

Antique moveable type, ornament, and border fill delicately handset in a balanced letterpress composition. Put to rest on European mold made cotton paper with a deckle edge.

Imperfectly handmade and 100% human-powered on a 1890s C&P Platen Press in Toronto, Canada.

 

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