VISUAL ART AND RESEARCH
Before I was a writer, I was a printmaker. For the eight combined years of my bachelor’s and master’s in fine arts in Canada, Gutenberg was a household name in my vocabulary, as were materials like copper, limestone, wood, linoleum, and silk screens. I painstakingly made Gampi washi, bound and sewed books, handset lead type, painted with acid on copper and zinc plates, engraved blocks of wood, and practised extraordinary techniques of aquatint, mezzotint, chine-collé, and photogravure. Some of the work presented below is from those years spent as a practising visual artist.
