The Closet of Mysteries has a new home in the Verde Valley of "northern" Arizona (It's actually the middle of the state but we call anything north of Phoenix "northern" AZ). I have set up my screen shop in a shed behind our little house. This is our phase two in a three part plan to live an independent and sustainable life "off of the grid". I will explain more about that in later entries. For this phase, Cristina and I have rented an inexpensive, small place where we can print shirts and grow plants to work towards our goal of building our own sustainable community.
It has been nearly a month since we moved and we had almost no time to get settled before work's demand required us to be production ready. The first couple of weeks were a flurry of unpacking and printing shirts but now we have a lot less unpacking occupying the days. Life is never slow enough to say things have settled down, but we will call them settled down for convenience sake. I found some time to take some pictures while printing in my new shop.
We have started a bunch of seeds and I will share about those next time...
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| This is my shop! |
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| The screens are made with UV sensitive material so here is some of my very state of the art cardboard construction employed to protect unexposed screens. |
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| I only use the most environmentally friendly professional water based screen printing inks. The Gen IV are awesome. |
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| The painting in the background is a copy of a Francis Bacon painting that I did for a painting class at ASU (a long time ago). The thing is huge but I always have found it a home. I am going to hang it up later... |
