Nature Themed Letterpress Cards by Current Location Press

Raychel Steinbach (she/her) created Current Location Press as a brand to create fine art prints and stationery inspired by nature. Place- and nature-based work has been a common theme throughout Raychel’s work. Current Location Press strives to bring that sensibility out of the gallery box and into people’s lives. By embracing traditional methods of letterpress printing’s movable type, Raychel is able to assemble and reassemble the same collection of wood type scaps endlessly throughout her work. The prints are created by arranging small rectangular scraps from the wood type manufacturing process as if they were pieces of traditional type. Think of precisely finished tiny wood blocks that are arranged amongst hundreds of pieces of metal spacing which holds them in place. This creates the abstract color layers behind the illustrative hand-carved block throughout the series of prints-on-paper. While this process is much more time consuming than carving another block or having a polymer plate made, it allows Raychel to recycle the same small collection endlessly into new prints while creating no additional waste. Current Location Press is rooted in sustainability. By using low-VOC materials, paper produced in the Midwest with hydropower, and reusing or composting all waste material, Current Location Press is dedicated to taking care of the beautiful environment our work is based upon.
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