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Publishing imprint based in the Point Reyes Peninsula. Art & writing concerned with translation, folklore, natural history, and the poetics of place. www.epidotepress.com

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 23

If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:

nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · 23d

"I was raised under a bell jar with forget-me-nots in my hair."
Thank you, Miriam Hopkins.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 21

My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Aug 4

Happy Birthday, Kim! 🤍

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Make contact with yourself—lay down a list of notes—and the discourse that must bind them together will grow among them on its own, like a creeper among stones. — Cristina Campo

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 23

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 8

I love this one, Kim....

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 5

Be right there....

Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 1

Beautiful, beautiful! Thank you, k

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Jan 10

Yes—at least in part! But these diagrams, as I understand them, also honor deities, and serve to draw in, or gather, positive energy, which is a bit different than warding off the opposite....

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thank you, thank you!

Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

My partner in crime, @herbert_pfostl, has an exhibition opening at Bolinas Museum next Saturday! "Between Field and Firmament” will be up through August 6th. He will be in conversation with the curator in an event titled "The Hard Part is Silence" on June 24th. Details below!

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Rena Papaspyrou's "Photocopies directly from matter," 1980-1981. Thanks to Steve Roden for introducing me to Papaspyrou's work. Sadly, it's nearly impossible to find any of her books in print.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Rena Papaspyrou (b. 1938), "Geography—Images through Matter," 1981, Metal Sheet with Traces of Cement and Graphite. For S.R.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

As we enter the "rainy season" in California, I turn to Mary Webb, unabashedly, and look for those passages about about how the low lands draw storms & night after night on the apples descend rains that are thick, permanent wires taut between heaven and earth.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Liliana Porter, Plate V from Wrinkle, photogravure, 1968.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

It's that time of year when the westering sun sets the windows on fire at the end of the day. And the Golden-Crested Sparrow has arrived with its melancholy, whistling song. Image: Sun flares & light leaks in the last exposed sheet of decades-old Polaroid film.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

A favorite: "And the heaps of coral of every type and hue, animated by a melancholy and bracing light, began to glow as though each little stone carried its own microscopic lantern within its delicate interior."
— Joseph Roth, Der Leviathan, 1938.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Yet at times between two everyday words a few syllables of 'dead' languages will slip out, ghost-words that have the transparency of a flame at high noon. — Pierre Klossowski, Diana at her Bath, 1968

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Notes from this evening's reading: phosphorous in a fawn’s finest bone; pearl in a sparrow’s buried vocal chord; iron in the last breath of a badger.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Days when nothing particular happens, but which are made secretly resonant by a nonetheless unfamiliar dimension, like the hollow space inside a musical instrument. — Philippe Jaccottet, Through an Orchard, Aquila Publishing, Isle of Skye, 1978

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

These Days: Projecting Super 8 and staring at the wall. #Bolex

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

The earth was like a magnet which pulled me and sometimes I came near it, this identification or annihilation that I longed for. — Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, 1979.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · Nov 30

Couple standing in front of Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1951-1952.

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