Worked at the Type Archive again today with Gerry Drayton teaching. In the afternoon we got to look at the matrix-making department and met with Kumar Rajput. He showed us how mats are punched, milled, & trimmed, with cone holes and side holes drilled. Then back to Gerry and more discussions and hands on for the comp. caster. Finally got good Internet access at the end of the day, a hole in the wall, all-day breakfast place, enough to download photos and my journal entries. I sent the colophon for a broadside to J. Cornelisse, to go with the Blake quotes we are making into a printed celebration piece to commemorate this journey.
Many pieces are falling into place for me on this journey—emotional bright flashes and painful, yet joyful remembrances flow through me. To forge this new direction, I am taking in all this external stimuli and seeing what vision develops from the synthesis of the many parts.
Circles and cycles are intersecting and time is revealing past and future pathways, which seem to be paralleling each other. Other major life journeys began for me with a trip to England, seeing the White Cliffs of Dover from the ferry over 30 years ago, just before I stumbled on my typographic direction and met Dan Carr in Boston. Now the same circles meet; I perceive another time of new beginnings: the trident, — past, present, future— being the symbol of that for me.
In the dusk of shifting light, of the coming possibilities, my heart beats to know all endings are leading to new beginnings if I can allow the groundlessness under my feet— to just be.
