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.

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Open Letter
(Dear Students)

Originally printed and distributed to a group of about 45 students at Kansas City Art Institute in the spring of 2018, it is written as a call to action on why we choose to come and learn together. There are four sections: on attention, on choice, on investing, on voice.

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

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

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

On scale for scale

Blue ink on a very slight pink paper.

Printer: Midori.so Studio, Tokyo
Printer: Riso
Inks: Blue
Paper: Takeo Paper, A4
Edition: 2

On alignment

Yellow on a slight pink paper.

Printer: Midori.so Studio, Tokyo
Printer: Riso
Inks: Blue
Paper: Takeo Paper, A4
Edition: 2

From A Temple Garden (花)

花 in fluorescent red.

Printer: Midori.so Studio, Tokyo
Printing: Risograph
Paper: Takeo Paper
Year: 2025

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