Correspondence Press 

Initiated in 2016 as a temporary gallery installation about writing in public, Correspondence Press is a research and publishing project exploring forms of memoir, listening, and conversation through short essays, images and other printed media. 
On ashes
Special edition A short essay on my mother’s ashes, alongside thoughts on travel, loss and flowers. 

The special edition set includes two B5 prints: “From A Temple Garden (花)” printed in fluorescent red and “Where Zushi and Hayama Meet (玻)”, an image of beach glass, plastics and shells gathered from a beach near where my mother grew up. The 花 print is from a photograph taken at a women’s Buddhist temple off a small road in Kamakura, Japan. As I walked by the gate, a hand-painted sign there struck me as a particularly expressive notion of flower. It told of how and when the garden at this temple is cared for.

The essay is printed in green ink on four different subtle paper colors to pick from (tan, green, pink and gray).

Printer: Midori.so Studio, Tokyo
Printing: Risograph
Paper: Takeo Paper
Edition: 20
Year: 2025
Looking North, Facing In
On moving around, fear, and lava flows. Written soon after a pair of taxi rides with the same driver. 

Printer: &soWalter (usw.), Stavanger, Norway
Printing: Risograph
Inks: Fluorescent Pink, Green
Size: A3 sheet, double-sided
1st Edition: 40
Year: 2024



Open Letter
(Dear Students)
 Originally printed and distributed to a group of ~40 students at Kansas City Art Institute in the spring of 2018, Open Letter is based on experiences with a wide variety of students from New York to Providence to Oklahoma to Missouri and beyond. The reflections shared here adjusts and changes slightly with each new printing.

Printer: Oddities Prints, Kansas City
Printing: Risograph
3rd Edition: 50 (2025)
2nd Edition: out of stock (2019)
1st Edition: out of stock (2018)




A Bookmark With A Drawing
A bookmark for page-holding needs. The dimensions are steady, the drawings are variable. 

Paper: Hahnemühle, cold-press, 300 gsm
Ink: sumi ink (black)
Size: 2.2 x 7.9 in
1st Edition: 12
Year: 2025


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