Friends,
I’m part of an art show. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, September 7 from 6-8pm at Bottom Feeder Books. The show is called Light From the Bottom of Your Shoe, and it’s with Haylee Ebersole and Andrew W. Allison.
It’s a good crew. Every time one of us would write something for the show, we’d place our own name last and foreground the others. That’s a good sign. Haylee wrote the blurb, I organized the poster, and Andrew wrangled the title into shape.
Light From the Bottom of Your Shoe is a collection of works on paper by David Bernabo, Andrew Allison, and Haylee Ebersole and features a playful, prismatic array of drawings, letterpress prints, screenprints, risographs, and monotypes.
Bernabo’s letterpress prints, produced in collaboration with Ebersole at Meshwork Press, are packed full of unruly color gradients and intriguing juxtapositions. His work merges familiar symbols with built environments tangled with unreal spaces, telling narratives that are both uncanny and everyday.
Allison and Ebersole’s prints and drawings offer a glimpse into the ethos of their ongoing collaborative process, highlighting moments like a witch manicure, building a ladder that leads nowhere, and weaving a jumbo friendship bracelet. Through sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, their work embraces curiosity, playfulness, and magic as forms of resistance.
All of us collaborated on a new print, and personally, I’ll have my last two years worth of work on view and available for sale. It’s all quite affordable. $25/print for the most part. I’d love to sell 1,000,000 prints at this. But the editions are more like ten of each print.
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War Will Not Be The Only Word Of The Future
Watererer’s 7th album arrived at the end of June.
Somewhere in the Area is the first collaboration between my band Watererer and new music ensemble Nat 28. The record began with trio recordings of Nat 28 performing on piano, clarinets, and cello. From there, the core Watererer trio of David Bernabo, Matt Aelmore, and PJ Roduta threw a bunch of percussion, sculpted computer sounds, and rock band sounds into the mix. You can hear hand claps recorded in a slot canyon in Capitol Reef National Park. And vinegar hitting a pile of soda. Perhaps a misguided attempt at acoustic techno. And while light on singing, the record features another beautiful vocal performance by Kelsey Robinson.
I’m quite happy with the artwork. It’s a collage of photos that I took at Hanging Lake, outside of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, historical photos and illustrations (in the public domain), and grid patterns.
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What is an archive?
Glad you asked. Bright Archives, the archival production house that Katherine Barbera and I co-founded last year, has a new video series called FAQs that answers these types of questions. Watch the first video below, subscribe to the channel, and join our monthly newsletter. Sarah Hallett from Mattress Factory joins us, and I get to try out new animation ideas!
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Lightning Round
On the Why We Collect podcast by Bright Archives, we interviewed poet and Fungus Books and Records co-owner Ed Steck. Listen here.
I put my feature-length doc about the history of the Mattress Factory on YouTube.
Hope to see some of you in real life soon. Enjoy the weather. Stay safe.
Best,
Dave