Jared Metzner and I grew up together in a place called Bristol, Connecticut. Through our high school years we spent nights collaborating on zines and comics, searching for new means of expression through crude photocopies and screen prints.Now, some 20 years later, Jared resides in Chicago as a tattoer...
A 20 page zine of hypnagogic mask-forms by Robert AA Lowe (Lichens, Om)Printed in-house at Samaritan Press on a Riso GR3775One color print and rubber stamp on French Paper5 x7", Stapled bound, Edition of 100Includes a 5x7" screen print of cover image and a button of one of three random...
Mark Herschede is a printer. In my years of work in this field I’ve met many, but nobody has fully embodied the trade such as Mark. He’s incredibly knowledgable, kind, and just the right amount of obsessive. I knew this after working with him on the Astral Mind screen print in...
During my Haven Press residency we decided to fit in a second project. Since Mark owns a laser engraver and was eager to put it to use, he suggested we try a relief print on the etching press. I handed over an image and after some tweaking and vectorizing we were...
Shirt design 2014
Hexvessel's songs are magical tapestries of forests, fungus, and sacred entities. Their reverence and love for nature deeply resonates with me. Aren't the Northwest trees around me connected to Finnish forests via spores and sky? Regardless, the spirit translates. In working on their second album, No Holier Temple, I immersed...
An interview from “Zero Tolerance” magazine, 2014 I see on your website that your preferred medium is pen and ink with low key colour. Is that still the case? What is it about this medium that works for you? My work is usually seen in print form, which does call...
Plans for Samaritan Press 001 began in early 2013, shortly after the imprint was founded. Releasing the first official catalog number with Al was important to me, as the creative relationship we've built with OM has made for some of my best and most fulfilling work.Al's intention in music and words deeply...
Death Posture refers to the yoga asana commonly known as savasana or corpse pose in which the senses are turned inward and mind open to visual inspiration.The term, as defined by illustrator Austin Osman Spare, is a threshold crossed via an induced state of gnosis. Meditation, breath, candle gazing, and...
