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Slate, sculpey, Roky 💝

Mar 27, 2025

Ok fun and finest friends—here comes the next print zine. Or, at least, a lil digital preview to get you and your mailboxes prepared and excited for yours.

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Onward! Inward!

Speaking of fun and finest friends, this month’s cover features a painting by my oldest-time pal, artist Louise Sheldon. We had a lot of fun adapting this trippy portrait of her dog Roky submerged in classic checkerboard tablecloth. It was printed on a risograph printer (all the covers are, if you’re new here!!) monochromatically using Florescent Pink, which is always such a fun color to work with. Looks great and is just great in-hand.

Inside, another fine and fun friend Allison Cekala shares some stunning black and white photos she took at a slate quarry in Monson, Maine. It’s really surprising how much personality chunks of rock can hold. Seriously, spend some time with these photos. When we were figuring out the layout for this story, we started giving the various “guys” nicknames, seeing who matches best with whom. Allison is a photographer, filmmaker and painter (more painting recently), who currently has work up at CMCA nearby in Rockland, Maine.

Last a little project I whipped up, once I found out that—of course!—polymer clay is heat resistant. So: some Sculpey trivets needed to happen. Tried out a few shape and color ideas… If anyone ends up trying this, let me know what you come up with. I already feel like I have possibly at least two more ideas! Possibilities being endless and all that.