An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street
Grendl Löfkvist, USA
| An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi
Street; Grendl Löfkvist, Cloven Hoof
Press, Oakland, CA, USA, 2013 I'm a press operator at Inkworks Press in Berkeley. Inkworks is a commercial offset print shop, and I'm a job printer, perhaps something like the four brothers who ran a small print shop on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Three of those four brothers were killed in the bombing. This identity helps me locate this tragedy in a way that's very personal and relevant for me as a printer. I see our obligation as printers, printmakers, artists, poets, and writers is to use OUR weapons to call attention to the crimes against humanity that have been committed and are currently being committed in our names by our government. We must never be silent. Size: 3.25" x 3.25"; Material: Ondine typeface by Adrian Frutiger, linoleum cuts, photopolymer plate from Logos Graphics, shards of broken glass from the streets of Oakland, printed at City College of San Francisco and at the Necropolis, Oakland, CA. |