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The book cover for Recetas y Refranes has been completed by Sarah Godsill. It is a five-colour suicide print, sometimes more prosaically known as a reduction print. The block is destroyed in the process if making the print.
The book is a collection of family sayings and recipes. The Coello family were exiled by the Spanish Civil War, they fought on the Republican side, and they kept the spirit of home alive with food and language.
After a month or more of carving cobbles, dead rat is finally finished. I finished on a Monday, started editioning on the Tuesday and they were all up in the ball racks by Wednesday lunch time.
It's another piece on the theme of childhood everyday life. These moments of discovery and the quest for understanding that children have is very often laughed at or condescended to by adults. I'm trying to grant them some gravitas and would ask you adults there to think twice about having a little smirk at a child's innocence. I look after our kids for most of the time and so it's a given that they should be my main frame of reference. As adults we stand witness to children's dramas and I'm learnjng to try to see the world through their eyes.
