Description
When life hands you lemons…make lemonade!
This is a hand-bound journal with a hand-pulled, letterpress cover (in fact, everything was done by hand, the hard way!). This piece is a collaboration between Chandler O’Leary of Anagram Press and Jessica Spring of Springtide Press, made from the “lemons” presented by the pitfalls of printing by hand. One hundred percent of the proceeds of this journal will be donated to the Dead Feminists Fund, which supports nonprofits that help women and girls create change in their own communities.
When we were printing our 25th Dead Feminist broadside, “Save Our Ship,” featuring 20 women lighthouse keepers, we had a few prints that ended up with slightly wonky registration. We couldn’t include those prints in the edition of broadsides, but since we still liked the results, we decided to crop the prints down to our favorite parts, and make “lemonade!”
This blank journal is centered with the silver beacon of a lighthouse, printed on black paper and surrounded with the names of historical women lighthouse keepers around the English-speaking world. There’s an extra surprise in store: charge up the book in plenty of light, then turn turn off the lights and watch the lighthouse’s rays glow in the darkness.
This pocket-sized book is ideal for keeping your gratitude list, brushing up on a bit of history, or planning the next women’s revolution. Turn heads while you take notes, or give a thoughtful gift to your fellow light-keeping sisters.
You can learn more about the original Dead Feminist broadside here.
Saddle-stitch journal with rounded corners
Blank inside
Size when closed: 3.75 x 3.75 inches
Size when open: 7.5 x 3.75 inches
8 lightweight blank sheets (32 pages)
Pale blue pages inside
Note: as these are individually handmade by cutting down larger prints, please allow for slight differences in image cropping than what is pictured here.
Cover was letterpress printed on an antique Vandercook Universal One press. Journal is made with acid-free paper and bound with saddle-stitch staples.
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This original artwork is copyright Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring 2017. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this journal. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
WA state residents are subject to sales tax.
