This letterpress print was created by Richard Kegler at the Rochester Institute of Technology during the ArtistsPrint! residency. This event featured 13 artists invited from around the world to create work in the RIT printmaking facility during one week in May 2022. This print uses a 19th century chromatic (2-part) wood type from the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection. The text was created from a prompt in collaboration with poet Dan Rosenberg. The main text: “A Throw of the Dice will never abolish chance” is the English translation of French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard. Using elements of chance, each line substitutes one or more counterparts of the chromatic type: either through necessity (missing matching wood type), or whim. The limited number of type blocks also necessitated each color being run in two passes, therefore the red and blue are each printed in two different shades.
• 14.5” x 2”6
• Four runs through the press
• 100 lb White Mohawk Superfine Cover
• Signed and numbered
• Limited edition of only 10
• 14.5” x 2”6
• Four runs through the press
• 100 lb White Mohawk Superfine Cover
• Signed and numbered
• Limited edition of only 10