Sometimes

This is the first book that I have produced in my artistic career. It was written at a time in my life where I was facing with a great deal of alienation, lonesomeness, and depression. I decided to pour those feelings into a book. All the choices in terms of color, layout, and illustration were calculated to convey the nature of my situation. I mixed the ink color for the text to closely blend in to the page and centered said text to signify that the issues were there, but one had to look closely to see them. The illustrations, produced through pressure prints on the printing press, progressed to symbolize my growing feelings of isolation and coming undone. The title, which is actually gold foil embossed, was done to signify the special nature of the project for me. This book was a challenge to produce because I had never bound a book before, nor printed so precisely. In the end, this project served as the catharsis I needed, and helped me to climb out of the hole I was in. My friends and colleagues, upon realizing what I had been struggling with thanks to this book, reached out to reassure me that they were there for me and not faking it. All in all, this was a wonderful project, even if the impetus for it came from a very dark place.