#On This Land

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Decorative Sunday

Nebraska printmaker and book artist Karen Kunc (b. 1952) is a favorite here at UWM Special Collections. Here is a new acquisition of color, reduction woodcuts and letterpress printing, On this Land, with a text by Latina Nebraskan poet Lenora Castillo (b. 1950), printed in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Kunc's Blue Heron Press for the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1996 in an edition of 126 copies signed by the poet and artist.

The images were printed in five runs from Kunc's two basswood blocks on mouldmade Nideggen paper by artist Nancy Palmeri. On This Land reflects the austere beauty of the artist's environment - its farmland and open sky - and describes the gradual process of acceptance and attachment to a new place. Kunc's nature-inspired woodcuts echo the colors of rural harvesting, festivals and folk arts. The size of the book is intimate in scale, yet unfolds to a dramatic horizontal spread that evokes the land itself. Our copy is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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On this Land by Mahmoud Darwish

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[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

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Lego Swimming Pool Layout

[thoughtportal]

The US Military in Hawaii

[baristabomb]

...weird amount of dunmeshi fans have been saying being a caretaker in a relationship is the worst thing ever..marcille must want to killl everyone soo bad because doing things for people suuuucks sooo muchh

it's an act of love, not just a job i promise. we all want someone who's willing to take care of us in some way, just like how senshi shows care for others by cooking for them :'|

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[l-na]

really wish "abolish the police" was trending with all the news, it feels like a lot of ppl have forgotten since the height of blm

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

This week, we present another book from the estate of our late friend, Dennis Bayuzick entitled On This Land. The book consists of a poem by Lenora Castillo with woodcuts created and printed in 1996 by Karen Kunc in an edition of 125 copies at the printer’s own Blue Heron Press with support from the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Both author and artist are from Nebraska, which is fitting because the poem is about becoming used to the landscape and nature of the state. Castillo begins her poem by discussing what Nebraska lacks: rivers, ravines, high mountains, and hills before continuing to describe what the state does have to offer: tornadoes, snowdrifts, and cottonwood trees. This progression represents the gradual acceptance of the “austere beauty” of the plains state, while the prints provide abstracted versions of the elements being described by the poet to enrich the viewer’s reading of the poem.

The prints are reduction woodcuts printed in five runs from two basswood blocks. The typeface is 14 point Baskerville printed on mould-made Nideggen paper along with a red flax cover pigmented with walnut.

View other posts with works by Karen Kunc.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

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This is the second time in my voting history that I’ve participated in flipping a red seat in Alabama for Democrats (the previous time being my beloved Doug Jones) so it’s always funny to see people turn around and say voting doesn’t matter when I’ve seen it twice in the past ten years flip seats in what is supposed to be safe Republican country. Republicans are digging their own grave with their radicalization and it is making them lose (and with your help we can make them lose harder). Vote.

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Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

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