Monhegan Birdlife

A project in Portland, ME by Ed Asher Briant
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A Hand-Printed, Hand-Bound Book of Block Prints featuring birds of Monhegan Island, the artist community off the coast of Maine.
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Funded: $2,044 of $750
Dates: Jan 8th -> Feb 7th (30 days)
Project By: Ed Asher Briant
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Latest News

Update to Monhegan Birdlife.

February 4th - via: kickstarter.com
This is still a glued together dummy, but made with the actual prints, only a cou-le of birds left—and some poetry. You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00  (Read More)

Gyr Falcon

February 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
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A proof of the full cormorant page.

January 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I read that cormorants can actually dive down to 150 feet. I wondered if cormorants could not just dive deep, but actually be philosophically deep as well.  (Read More)

Consider the Cormorant

January 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
I'm seriously thinking about changing my title, and I was wondering if 'Consider the Cormorant' might be too referential to David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster. What do you think?  (Read More)

The Next-to-Last Page.

January 20th - via: kickstarter.com
This page brings the narrative home. At the beginning of the book it seems like the cormorant is telling the story, but at this point it's revealed that the story is actually being narrated by the artist who's drawing the birds.  (Read More)

This is how the Whippoorwill print was put together.

January 20th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00  (Read More)

Blue Heron Print

January 13th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00 Some more late night printing, this time a blue heron. this is the poem: i could be a heron setting sail above a stream, like a sleeper... (Read More)

A Whippoorwill Print With a Poem:

January 12th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00 I could be the whippoorwill who flies at dead of night, Between the limbs of ancient trees, Then Vanishes from sight.  (Read More)

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