#To Fly or Fall

[uwmspeccoll]

Fine Press Friday

Today we present a few pages from a bittersweet letterpress artist's book, To Fly or Fall, by Wisconsin painter, printmaker, and book artist Stephanie Copoulos-Selle, printed and bound in 2023 at her Citron Press in Waukesha, Wisconsin in a limited edition of 27. In 2020, Stephanie lost her husband, life partner, and fellow artist Tom Selle and this book is a cathartic exercise to contend with her grief.

The book combines repurposed prints and proofs made by both artists over their 44-year marriage. These images, unfortunately, do little justice to the book's sublime movement and balance, but we hope something of the poignancy of its contents are conveyed adequately.

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[bllmak]

[evanzzz3]

It's not about you or me, its about what we could be together

[hyunpic]

fluffjin..

[l0verseyes]

partner pokemons 🌲🌠🤚🐟

[sopuu]

two birds on a wire, one can fly and the other cannot

[hkthatgffan]

WHY DID ALEX HIRSCH HAVE TO REPLY TO THIS TWEET OF MINE OUT OF ALL OF THEM, LMFAO?!

[starcurtain]

I fully understand the appeal of angst surrounding Mydei's constant "reborn from death" deal, but I also think that at some point, after making his peace with the fact that death just won't take him, it would be extremely funny if Mydei just became way more nonchalant about dying than anyone reasonably should be.

Imagine:

"Mydei, you can't drink expired milk; it could kill you!" "I'd like to see it try."

"I don't think you should jump from this cliff." "Why? Go on, say it."

"Don't pet that chimera! It's a new breed that's poisonous--" "This is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

"How sharp is his blade?" "Hmm, let me check."

*gets a papercut* "Someone put me out of my misery."

There just is a huge untapped comedic potential here to make the ripped warrior bro the lore equivalent of this meme:

[foursidecity]

See my vision...

[dottysdokis]

early 1980s to early 2010s is possibly one of the funniest 30-year periods of history to miss out on, especially for a scientist

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Thunderfire NSFW

List of their crimes:

No lab coats

No eye protection

Holding a tube towards yourself

Everything Thundercracker is doing

(Stole @mechncheese ‘s science designs again, sorry couldn’t resist drawing this joke rq)

[ofswordsandpens]

adding to the "there should have been more genuine tension within the seven" train of thought, it would have been funny if the Argo II, technically being a ship, meant it fell under Percy's power domain and he could control it all at whim, rendering all the carefully crafted controls Leo built useless if Percy felt like being an asshole

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[tk-sketches]

I heard the most common way to acquire a captured fairy is to buy one off another fae

[azulhood]

Jazz is wandering Gotham with Danny after their parents visited the city for a convention but left them behind in the excitement of one of their ghost traps going off on the other side of the country.

The hotel they were staying at kicked them out not caring if they had a place to stay or not, only caring that the source of money had left.

Jazz couldn't show how scared she actually was, not when Danny was looking at her with complete faith that she could somehow fix this.

How he managed to keep that faith after a day of jumping at shadows like they held enemies and vending machine food for lunch was a mystery.

She's tired, she's stressed, and she needs an adult.

Like an actual adult and not her much loved but very scatterbrained parents, Vlad did not count either.

Nightwing: *falls from great heights into nearby dumpster* ...ow.

Jazz: ...You'll do.