Bill Denham
Berkeley, CA
Title: Isabel and the Printer
Author: Bill Denham
Edition: 100
Size: 6 x 11.25 inches
Price: $60
To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.
Colophon: Letterpress printed on Saunders Waterford Rough 140lb.
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The Text Featured on This Broadside
Isabel and the Printer Bill Denham
Isabel’s tiny hands and feet
have found a permanent place
somewhere, down there in my heart.
I have studied them with such care and intensity,
bringing them to life (again)
with just the right shade of pink,
delicately debossed into the crisp elegance
of the rough textured, heavy, fine art paper—
her chubby little left foot, her slightly crooked right pinky,
and on her right foot, the nerve-like
cluster of creases that caught the light just so,
each time I pulled the print from the press—
studied it for color and coverage and placement,
to get as close to perfect as those little feet and hands
had already gotten.
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