The Second Cup of Tea
Notes on the half-hour between the first and the second cup of tea — the only window in the day when nothing is required of me. Continue reading →
This is the long-running notebook of Spare Pages No. 30, written from a north-facing room somewhere in northern Europe. It is mostly about slow work — letterpress, ink, walking, the books we keep — and only occasionally about anything else.
Notes on the half-hour between the first and the second cup of tea — the only window in the day when nothing is required of me. Continue reading →
For two years I have kept an index of every book I finished, written by hand. Here is what that taught me about memory and patience. Continue reading →
On the small ritual of mixing ink, the way light falls in a north-facing room, and the difference between practice and rehearsal. Continue reading →
Half the projects in the studio are unfinished. For a long time that bothered me. Lately I think the unfinished pile is the real archive. Continue reading →