One of my cousins is getting married!  We’ve sent him and his soon-to-be wife some art for their new home, a letterpress print I made way back in 2006.  It features a this quote from William Saroyan:

Standing at the edge of our city,
a man could feel that we had made
this place of streets and dwellings
in the stillness of the desert, and
that we had done a brave thing.

Or a man could feel that we had
made this city in the desert and
that it was a fake thing and that
our lives were empty lives, and
that we were the contemporaries
of the jack rabbits.

I was worried this might be a bit… drab for a wedding gift.  So I mounted it on some acid free patterned paper and stuck it in a glass frame.  I think that makes it chipper(er) but doesn’t really detract from the print itself.

You, dear readers, can purchase an unframed version of this print in my Etsy shop!  It’s just $20.00 for an unframed print.  I assure you that it’s lovely and looks delightful on walls and desks.

My apologies re: the photography– I’ve really struggled with it.  Since I don’t have a DSLR it’s tough to get close-ups of something as small as text.  I assure you that the print is quite crisp and the paper is French Paper company’s “cement blue”– a tough color for a digital camera to “read.”