Oh, and this flyer explains why I made this print a healthcare access fundraiser now and why I originally made it!

Just posted my "A is for..." letterpress print as an ACLU healthcare access fundraiser in my shop hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4485...

Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press@markalanmattes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"A is for Abjection" is done! Went with a humoral theory color scheme in a variable edition of 100. I am exhausted. I hope Louisville folks will check out Ben's talk on March 17 and grab a free print. If there are any left after the event I will put them in the shop #letterpress #DHmakes #printsky

"We're so often told that art can't really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living." ~Olivia Laing, _Funny Weather_

If someone had told me in 2024 while I was working at Indy’s beloved Amelia’s—selling sourdough bread and various and sundry pastries—that I would move to West Virginia and spend hours sustaining and using a starter my sister gave me, I would have asked better questions of the bakers.

Just this very moment reread Emerson’s essay “Circles” and decided I needed to return to writing things online for the audience of one.

David Wojnarowicz, describing the moment: "Whales can descend to a depth of five thousand feet where they can and must sustain a pressure of one hundred and forty tons on every square foot of their bodies."

I finally made an account here and seriously contemplating using it just to put more David Wojnarowicz quotes into the digital world.