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The following prints are available to buy at Shop Bloom PVD in Providence, in person or online. Click on any of them to purchase or read more details.

Letterpress print, wider than it is tall. A roughly rectangular field is filled with an unstable composition of angular red shapes with imperfectly straight edges, touching each other at their corners and sides. Some of the red shapes are squares or triangles; others are rectangles or other elongated shapes, often bent in the middle at sharp angles. The white spaces between them are spiky, like lightning bolts or maple leaves.

“someone tell me what to do”
written in CRH Shorthand
letterpress print, 8×10”

Square letterpress print. An even grid of circles and semicircles, nearly touching each other, is printed in dark gray ink. Some cells in this grid are occupied by a full circle, while others have only the top or the bottom half of a circle, and other cells are blank. Some columns of this grid have many full circles, while others have none, creating a pattern of uneven vertical bands. This pattern intersects with a more subtle pattern of diagonal bands, as if to be an abstraction of ripples overlapping on water.

Clapping Music (Steve Reich)
custom notation system
letterpress print, 8×8”

Square screen print. A thin white border surrounds a dark blue field. In the center is a white sun-like shape, a star with so many points it’s nearly a circle. Surrounding this sun are many small white dots, arranged irregularly like the stars in the sky, and connected with white lines. Rather than forming separate constellations, almost all these stars are connected into one complex network, and in many places the lines cross each other. The overall composition feels asymmetrical yet balanced.

“The day with its cares and perplexities is ended and the night is now upon us”
written in Network Writing System
screen print, 8½×8½”

Risograph print, wider than it is tall. In the center is a symbol in teal composed of two solid shapes. The bottom shape is a stylized bird; its outline is made of a few nearly-geometric arcs and straight lines; it flies swiftly to the right. Above it, nearly touching, is a comet-like shape: a small circle, nearly above the bird’s head, with a long, wedge-shaped tail extending as far back as the bird’s tail.

“hope”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 5×7”

Risograph print, taller than it is wide. In the center is a symbol in teal composed of four solid shapes; they are layered around each other like rose petals. At the very center of the symbol is a small circle, which is nestled into a sideways heart-like shape with a large round opening between the lobes. This shape is held in turn by two other shapes above and below it, like open claws or pistachio shells.

“hold”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 7×5”

Risograph print, taller than it is wide. In the center is a symbol in teal composed of five solid shapes, resembling a right hand. The bottom shape is a thick arch; the fingers are arranged on top of it. The thumb and index finger are joined into one shape. The middle finger is flat on the left side, while the right side resembles two large curved teeth of a saw blade. The ring finger is like an elongated peanut with two lobes; the little finger is like a thin pie slice pointing outward.

“lineage”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 7×5”

Risograph print, wider than it is tall. In the center is a symbol in black composed of five solid shapes of similar size. A heart, a pie slice, two different water drops, and an isosceles triangle are arranged with their points nearly touching each other in the center, so that the whole symbol resembles an irregular asterisk.

“what”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 5×7”

Risograph print, wider than it is tall. In the center is a black spiky shape with a circular hole in the middle. Each of the seven spikes has a different shape: some are curved on one side and stright on the other; some are curved on both sides; some are straight on both sides; one is curved like a smile or a sickle. The shape rests on two of these spikes, as if it is walking.

“noise”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 5×7”

Risograph print, taller than it is wide. Two black symbols are arranged on top of each other. The top symbol resembles a symmetrical hand whose fingers are all equally short. The fingers farther to the edge are lower, so the shape as a whole resembles a house with a pointed roof. This shape has a circular hole in the middle. The bottom symbol is formed from four simple shapes of similar size arranged like an X around a central point; their curved sides are facing inward, and their points are facing outward.

“you are”
written in Contour Code
risograph print, 7×5”