I just have to say, that I’m loving my internship. The MICA printmaking department runs a professional printmaking/letterpress shop (Dolphin Press & Print) and every semester, a few students apply to work on a project. This semester we’re working on an accordion book for Christopher Whittey. Thirteen feet? Sixteen feet? Something to that extent. The text for the book is letterpressed and the images are lithographs which are printed separately and tipped in. As interns, we function as a production team – putting together the book and assisting with odds and ends. I’ve been helping print the lithos lately and it’s making me realize (more and more) that this is what I want to do. Maybe not lithography, but definitely work at a printshop (Own a printshop? Too far in the future for me to fathom right now). Nick (a prof. at MICA, who I am helping with printing) is setting up a screenprinting shop capable of doing 4×6 foot prints and it’s giving me the itch to print (and to get my dinky basement setup going). Hopefully, I’ll get to check that out before leaving Baltimore.

The uncertainty of the future gets me sometimes, but I know that if I really want it to happen, I’ll find a means to make it happen.