I decided to silkscreen the covers for Port Adieu.

First step: learning how to silkscreen (thank yous to friends and books).

Second step: getting all the materials (thank yous to art supplies stores with lengthy hours and spencer’s pickup truck).

Last step: silkscreening . . . Folks, it was rad.

One Saturday morning, I began setting up. I taped up the windows in our hall closet, emptied it out, and created my laboratory:

Frequently Morgan (my older brother) wakes up and I am halfway through some project dressed in my pajamas and about five sweaters (it’s cold in my house in the morning) and muttering to myself. I can only imagine what he thought when he saw the contents of the closet in the hall and and me duct taping cardboard over the windows. I got everything together and by the evening I was ‘burning’ screens:

This is the screen after it’s burned and the photo emulsion is washed off (in my bathtub):

The next morning I made coffee and surveyed the landscape. Morgan made me breakfast. I put together a worktable (the kitchen table):

The most brilliant innovation was my duct tape hinge system. It kept the screen stable so I could be a onemanfactoryline. I duct taped the screen to a hinge and the hinge to the table:

brilliant. . .

Screen one turned out well; I did a small victory dance.

Onward, through screens two through five. Here an image of one of the screens during the inking process:

They turned out beautifully – you can see just how beautifully at our release party on Sunday, November 15th at Cellspace (18th + Bryant in the Mission), doors+food at 6p. The music is available here on the website on November 1st.

.elizabeth.