The Alchemy of Printmaking in a World on Fire

Lately, it feels like everything is speeding up—news cycles, outrage, the erosion of truth itself. In the U.S., we watch the chaos unfold: leaders who don’t lead, billionaires who sneer at the very idea of responsibility, systems cracking under the weight of their own contradictions. It’s exhausting. It’s designed to be.

In times like this, I lean harder into the work of my hands. Into process. Into craft.

Photogravure is the opposite of the world Elon Musk and Donald Trump have built—where attention is a currency and destruction is the game. It demands patience, care, the willingness to embrace imperfection. There are no shortcuts in this work. No algorithm to trick, no engagement metrics to chase. Just the slow ritual of making, one step at a time.

And maybe that’s the antidote.

We can’t control the machinery of politics or tech billionaires who treat human lives like an experiment. But we can make something real. We can resist despair by creating things that cannot be automated, cannot be tweeted into oblivion, cannot be replaced by AI or undone with a single bad headline.

I believe in craft because I believe in people. In the small, deliberate acts of care that remind us that slowness is not failure, that imperfection is not weakness, that meaning is something we make, not something we consume.

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