Voices and Vessels:
A Confluence of Ideas and Passion
in Fine Press Books and Broadsides
October 3 - November 1, 2008
Index of Authors/Titles
These items are still available to purchase from the gallery. Contact Laura for purchasing information.
Sherman Alexie, My Architect
Robert Bly, Call and Answer
Lucie Carmin, Snow
Billy Collins, Design
John Daniel, Dependence Day
Brian Doyle, Two on Two
Molly Gloss, To Write is to be Insane
Joy Harjo, Perhaps the World Ends Here
Barry Lopez, We Regard Ourselves as Servants of Memory
N. Scott Momaday, Once in His Life
Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
Kim Stafford, Oregon Pilgrimage in Green
Kim Stafford, A Prayer by the Tigris
William and Kim Stafford, A Memorial/Art Lesson
W. Patrick Tilcock, Crossing the Willamette
W. Patrick Tilcock, About Usula
W. Patrick Tilcock, Evidence Suggests that Dirt May be Beneficial to Your Health
Terry Tempest Williams, Wild Mercy
Artist Statement
Sandy Ticock’s lone goose press is dedicated to excellence in the crafts of typographic design, letterpress printing and bookbinding. Over the last two decades, proprietor Sandy Tilcock’s work has been recognized for its impeccable and imaginative craftsmanship and design. The subtlety and refinement of her work keeps it understated, in keeping with her philosophy, “Do good work and allow the work to speak for itself.”
lone goose press produces limited-edition books and broadsides whose content is contemporary: writings of living authors with original graphics by working studio artists. The means is traditional: letterpress printing using lead type and a hand-cranked cylinder proofing press. Employing these “hands-on” technologies at the press is not intended to replicate historical printing methods, but to honor and value the fine press books and broadsides as an artistic object as well as a vessel for ideas.
Sandy states, “I am an unabashed throwback. The work I do has its roots in an age of printing and publishing when books were rare and honored objects. I love the physical process of making books, the direct interaction with paper, metal type, and ink, and the rhythms of binding by hand.”
The press’s mission is to promote book arts, to celebrate outstanding writing, and to foster conversation about community, social justice, and environmental ethics. Sandy is committed to working in a spirit of collaboration with clients, authors, and artists. She sees her role as creating unity among text, image and binding structure.
Biography
Sandy Tilcock has been involved with traditional book arts for over 25 years. Her deepening interest in the craft of hand bookbinding led her to enroll at the University of Alabama’s Book Arts Institute, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts in 1987. While at Alabama, she developed a keen interest in printing and typography. She studied letterpress printing with the Institute’s director, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds.
lone goose press was founded following her return to Eugene. The name of the press derives from a passage in Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. Leopold’s curious observation of the occasional solitary Canada goose during the Spring migration resonated with her sense of sudden isolation starting a one-person enterprise after leaving the collegial support of the Institute. In addition to her lone goose work, Sandy served for 7 years as Director of Knight Library Press at the University of Oregon.
Over her book arts career, Sandy has printed works by Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, David James Duncan, Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly and Sherman Alexie. Sandy states “I am an unabashed throwback. The work I do has its roots in an age of printing and publishing when books were rare and honored objects. I love the physical process of making books, the direct interaction with paper, metal type, and ink, and the rhythms of binding by hand.”
lone goose press is dedicated to excellence in the crafts of typographic design, letterpress printing and bookbinding. Over the last two decades, proprietor Sandy Tilcock’s work has been recognized for its impeccable and imaginative craftsmanship and design. The subtlety and refinement of her work keeps it understated, in keeping with her philosophy, “Do good work and allow the work to speak for itself.”
The press’s mission is to promote book arts, to celebrate outstanding writing, and to foster conversation about community, social justice, and environmental ethics. lone goose press produces limited-edition books and broadsides whose content is contemporary: writings of living authors with original graphics by working studio artists. The means is traditional: letterpress printing using lead type and a hand-cranked cylinder proofing press. Employing these “hands-on” technologies at the press is not intended to replicate historical printing methods, but to honor and value the book/broadside as an artistic object as well as a vessel for ideas. Sandy is committed to working in a spirit of collaboration with clients, authors, and artists. She sees her role as creating unity among text, image and binding structure.
OPUS FROM SPACE
by Pattiann Rogers
Drawing by Judith Sparks.
Printed on handmade paper from Twinrocker
in an edition of 75 numbered and signed
copies. 20 x 12 inches. Price: $125
To inquire about purchasing this work,
please contact Laura at 23 Sandy.
OPUS FROM SPACE
Pattiann Rogers
Almost everything I know is glad
to be born—not only the desert orangetip,
on the twist flower or tansy, shaking
birth moisture from its wings, but also the naked
warbler nestling, head wavering toward sky,
and the honey possum, the pygmy possum,
blind, hairless thimbles of forward,
press and part.
Almost everything I’ve see pushes
toward the place of that state as if there were
no knowing any other—the violent crack
and seed-propelling shot of the witch hazel pod,
the philosophy implicit in the inside out
seed-thrust of the wood sorrel. All hairy
saltcedar seeds are single-minded
in their grasping of wind and spinning
for luck toward birth by water.
And I’m fairly shocked to consider
all the bludgeonings and batterings going on
continually, the head-rammings, wing-furors,
and beak-crackings, fighting for release
inside gelatinous shells, leather shells,
calcium shells or rough, horny shells. Legs
and shoulder, knees and elbows flail likewise
against their womb walls everywhere, in pine
forest niches, seepage banks and boggy
prairies, among savannah grasses, on woven
mats and perfumed linen sheets.
Mad zealots, every one, even before
beginning they are dark dust-congealings
of pure frenzy to come into light.
Almost everything I know rages to be born,
the obsession founding itself explicitly
in the coming bone harps and ladders,
the heart-thrusts, vessels and voices
of all those speeding with clear and total
fury toward this singular honor.
Copyright 1997 by Pattiann Rogers, Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis, Minnesota.