Mare Blocker, October 2010: " linoleum blocks of scenes and people in Walla Walla. Blocker believes such collaboration strengthens flexibility skills - pre-conceived notions change as 'everyone’s voice is weighed." "It’s the kind of collaboration Whitman wants for its students: The student’s ideas and approaches mix with the instructor’s. They took photographs and then, carving for hours, turned those scenes into linoleum blocks that were made into 48 prints of life in Walla Walla: faces of farmers who sell produce at the farmers’ market, a special take-out box from a bakery, a spilled glass of wine. " Crafting a work of art," Whitman Magazine (December 2010): "Blocker and Elena Mitchel ’10 - a 'super talented' art major - collaborated to create book art.
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Illustrated pastedowns and free end pages. Bound in brown cloth with embossed design on back cover.
Walla Walla, Washington: MKimberly Press, 2009. The book is bound in my father's shirts." I wrote the poems, except for the piece from Walt Whitman. The majority of images are linoleum cuts, there are some collages and letterpress text. Many of our verses are collected in one vessel. "The book now chronicles my journey of the loss of several family members, celebrations of life, the birth of two new family members, and the garden I inherited.
It's the archaic form of fantasy, and as a story teller I try to follow my own curiosities and fancies. Those first blocks didn't seem appropriate anymore, but they'll appear later in a different project. Life happens, things change and my project changed forms too. I collected little slogans and bits of poetry to include in the book. Mare Blocker: "I started working on this book in 2011, and the nascent idea was a commonplace book. Bound in shirt-cloth covered boards with exposed stab binding. Edition of 31.ĥ x 7.25" 62 pages including pastedowns. Seattle, Washington: MKimberly Press, 2014-15. The books are charming and disturbing at the same time." … Mare is first and foremost a storyteller … Her stories, which often sound like fantasy, come from her ability to take the lives we see all around us and focus on them in a way that can be humorous, tender and biting. … Dramatic relief prints and drawings and paintings constitute much of her work, sometimes in stark black and white, other times as a wildly colorful display. Sandra Kroupa, University of Washington, Marearcana Catalog 1999: "Her visual narrative style is populated by saints and martyrs, friends and family, and a range of animals and insects that look like people I know. I realized that one form, the book, could encompass my interdisciplinary passions." Mare Blocker: "In 1979, I made my first trip to the Special Collections Library at the University of Washington, which literally, changed the pathway of my life.
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