While book binding allows me to really focus on my stress relief and really become ingrained in a project, printing allows me a few more things. Printing allows me to make mistakes, and work to correct them, printing teaches me to be innovative, creative, bold, and when things are always going right: methodical.

I get to test and test and test some more to find what works, what pleases me! I can make fun prints. and smart prints, and prints that are just as focused if not more focused then some bindings. Printing allows me freedom to be me. Printing allowed me to find the artist in myself. Met with deadlines and multiple crtieria to follow, printing forced me to find solutions to problems and forced me to keep creating.

This is one of the most important things about printing– you have to keep going. At the end of my…