BLUE CLERK MONOTYPES

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A set of monotypes printed with Josephine Press, Santa Monica, in July 2021. Each print is made over a drawing with graphite and vintage Lettraset graphics. Each print evokes a line from Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos (2018). On an ocean wharf a clerk clad in ink-blue inspects bales of paper, the poet’s accumulated left-hand pages. Following Brand, monotypes feel like aftereffects of the inspection, pentimenti. 

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