EXISTENTIAL JUKEBOX: self-portrait in the year of the dog

Outlet is a community print space and the studio of illustrator and educator Kate Bingaman-Burt. In my time at grad school, I helped Kate run the open hours at Outlet, teaching people how to use these crazy machines to print their own work. In multiples and through production, a person can gain valuable perspective on their own drawing, design, illustration, process, ideas, etc. Printing with a Risograph is an accessible and economical means of doing this.

Existential Jukebox is an artists’ book intended as a self-portrait—a collection of my drawings and writings that captures something more dynamic about my identity than might be done in a single image. It is a process study in book design, book publishing, and using the Risograph as a community building tool. I printed this book with a RC 6300 Risograph duplicator at Outlet (Portland, OR).

Risography is a cumulative, stencil-based printing technique, in which an image is composed through the addition of different colors in isolated layers. The composition below is printed first with a layer of scarlet (fig. 1) then a layer of teal (fig. 2).

Details: Risograph printed interior, letterpress cover with a three-color plate, 100 pages, perfect bound, published in 2018.
Limited edition of 50.