Where has my CALIFORNIA gone...

Five typographic prints
an homage to Joan Didion

The REAL LEAD Saloon 2024:
Monique Comacchio, Keith Cranmer, Karen Eng, Susan Filter, Becky Fischbach, Mark Gorenstein, Peter Koch, Mark Livingston, Paul Oh, Kate van Orden, Jennifer Osgood, and Christopher Stinehour

Five collaborative exercises in typographic printmaking executed in 2024 over “wordswords” printed in 1989 on vintage 1975 Curtis paper from the Black Stone Press in Missoula, Montana. Each portfolio contains five typographic prints + one additional unique / variant print, a title page, and a sheet with quotations from various works by Joan Didion. Printed at The Real Lead Saloon at the Codex Foundation’s Logan Book Arts Center, Spring 2024.

Edition: ten portfolios, letterpress from wood and metal type and engravings, print size 14.5 x 19 inches