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'year of the mad bird' artist book. 17x11" intaglio with aquatint on rives bfk. spray painted background.printed in an edition of 10. each print in each edition was spray painted differently, and the ones that were watercolored using stencils were also painted differently in each print in each edition.
as a result, none of the 100 prints are identical in color, and can be combined into many different series.
september 2002 - september 2003.
text printed on vellum, interleaved with the prints in the traditionally Japanese bound book from 2003; added to the image in the digital version, 2010.
page III:
m a r r o w .Other pages from Year of the Mad Bird
groups in which i am a member have my permission to display this work.
my work may NOT be used without my written permission.
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Yes, precisely. This entire "Year of the Mad Bird" gallery [link] consists of pages from my "Year of the Mad Bird" artist book - traditionally printed etchings, original text, hand-bound, in an edition of ten.
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Wow, well that just shows you that I never made it through your whole gallery before! Geesh.
You publish this all yourself? It's pretty impressive
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thank you very much, though i don't know if "publish" is the right term for artists' books; at least not this one- i did create, print and bind it from start to finish, but only in an edition of ten, so it couldn't exactly be issued for public distribution....
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Maybe you could say self-published?
Either way its very cool. I may do my own art book myself now
that I've gotten the idea
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Thank you very much.
Yes, I highly recommend making one- it's an adventure!
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I love all of this series
the words are cool too
I'm diggin' the mix of spraypaint and pen n ink. gives it a good raw energy
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thank you very much! this means a lot to me.
it's also really good to hear that you like the text- i wasn't sure if i should include it in the descriptions. it makes more sense in the book form, where it's printed on translucent vellum and interleaved with the images that are printed on thick paper.
btw, it's ink but not pen- rather, an etching needle on an intaglio copper plate...
i miss printmaking. i used to think of intaglio as tattooing copper... you know, you make the drawing with a "needle" through a layer of wax on the plate, then you bathe it in acid to etch the drawing into the copper. remove the wax, ink it up and run it through the press. it's great fun. you'd enjoy it.
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Man you are waaay more patient then me. That is a in depth process for sure.Where did you learn it from?
Tattooing copper is a cool way to put it.
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i learned it in college. i got a bachelor's of fine arts and my concentration was in printmaking. i got to do intaglio, lithography, woodcut, silkscreen, some mixes of the above with digital prints, and i got to study book arts with an amazing artist... 
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yea
you feel apart of it
the cut-the smells
yea I totally understand...
we sound like serial killers
if you removed what you were working on and replaced it with "victim" that's a scary sentence
"what i do miss about it is the physical and material aspect- grinding the victim, carving the victim, feeling the etching needle cut through the victim to the bone, the smell of blood, and even the acid and all the other toxic chemicals...."
passion for what you do is awesome
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that's great, that's how it is...
i'm going to have to copy this conversation and save it for posterity... 
thanks
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HAHAHAHA
cool
I hope you do keep it
AAHHHHH sweet murderous memories
you are too cool ySky
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Such a creepy piece! the faces give you such an unnerving feel. great details and good work on the shading
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