MKimberly Press ~ Washington
(Mare Blocker)

Giant Child Manifesto
By Miss Pixiemayhem aka Mrs White aka Mare Blocker
McCall, Idaho, and Walla Walla, Washington: MKimberly Press, 2007. Edition of 40.

5x7"; 28 pages including free-end page. Exposed handsewn binding. Photopolymer relief plates: handcut stencil type negatives developed in sun and kitchen sink. Handcoloring, collaged bits taken from Whitman College Book Arts class recycle bins. Shiny objects in envelope are found objects from artist's walks. Frontispiece page consists of sewn pieces from watercolors by Buzz Smith.

Words of advice about life from the artist to a friend who is concerned about being an adult and getting a job (e.g. Must I conform?)

"Live a charmed Life. Do what has heart and meaning to you. If a little glitter is good a lot is better...."
$250

Alluvium
By Mare Blocker
McCall, Idaho: 2005. Edition of 40.

6 x 9", 20 pages. Laid in letter-fold wrapper with paper hand-sewn at edges. Closure paper tab hand sewn to wrapper. Relief printed on magnani incisioni paper.

Mare Blocker: "The plates are photopolymer from the pen and ink drawings I did of the soil monoliths in the Maynard Fosberg Soil Monolith Collection at the University of Idaho. Soil monoliths are mounted soil samples that range in length from 2' to about 10' depending on the type and stability of the soil. The pages are sewn together in couplets, using what I call the baseball stitch, then I link the couplets together at the spine. I wanted the stitching to look like sutures. This series is an exploration of the philosophy of phenomenology and how things reveal themselves to us as we are working."
$200

Madame La Mare's Mystic Cards of Fortune
By Mare Blocker
1995. Edition of 200.

3.5 x 5" Signed and numbered. A Fortune telling oracle consisting of 25 cards and an instruction sheet. The cards are two color linoleum blocks, printed on the French Paper Mill's Packing Carton. Instructions are offset printed on red.

These cards of fortune were divined by Madame Mare Blocker with the assistance of her familiar 'El Maqdee,' the one whose true name should not be spoken. To use the cards the person whose fortune is being told, should shuffle the cards seven times and cut them with their left hand. The Fortune Teller should then lay the cards out in a diamond pattern (illustrated in the instruction sheet), starting from the top down and moving from left to right. The person who wishes to have their fortune told is represented by 24 for a woman, or 25 for a man. These cards are the starting point for the reading, as all the other cards revolve around and take their meaning from these, depending on their positions. Have fun!
$40

Eden
By Mare Blocker
1986. Edition of 30.

6 x 6" Signed and numbered. Seven multicolor linoleum prints bound into a concertina with cloth covered case binding and Suminagashi end sheets.
$95

Istoriato
By Mare Blocker
New York: 2001. Edition of 50.

11" x 11"Case bound concertina, lidded clamshell box. Multiple color linoleum blocks and type printed on Magnani Pescia. Round shaped, case bound concertina. Printed Iris cloth on both book covers and clamshell box. Includes unique plate glazed in the style of Majolica Pottery.

Explores how the design of Majolica pottery changed with the invention of the printing press. Istoriato, story painting, began when potters started to copy prints of masterworks.
$500

Clavicle
By Mare Blocker
Jerome, Arizona: 1997. Edition of 135.

5.25 X 7.5" 20 pages. A multiple color linoleum block printed accordion book, case bound in black cloth. Signed and numbered by the artist.

This grimoire, drawn from the tradition of the Clavicle of King Solomon, explores the fundamentals of alchemy, faith and magic.
$200

Blood on Blood
By Mare Blocker
Jerome, Arizona: 1999. Edition of 100.

From Mare Blocker: "I have always loved to tell stories.This book celebrates twenty years of mining my loved ones for material for my work. Quite simply, thanks to my sixty three first cousins, my bazillion other cousins, my friends, and of course my immediate family. Now the facts -- The acid-free recycled paper "memory books," were printed with silver ink and Century Schoolbook type. The linoleum cuts were printed on Magnani Pescia. Much appreciated technical assistance provided by Kelly Roberge, George Glassman, and Buzz White."
$220

Proverbs of Hell
By Mare Blocker
Jerome, Arizona: 2000. Edition of 17.

Linoleum blocks printed on Magnani Incisoni.
$125

Artists' Party Games:
Horseshoes der Blaue Reiter
By Mare Blocker
Jerome, Arizona: 1995. Edition of 50.

7.75 x 7.375" An accordion book with hand colored linoleum blocks printed on Magnani Incisioni.

A lighthearted look at art via children’s games.

Pin the Ear on Van Gogh
Spin the Squeeze Bottle with Jackson
Frida's Archery Set

$150

Closing the Book (on it)
By Mare Blocker
Moscow, Idaho: 2006. One-of-a-Kind.

Thirty-nine pages (each 7.75" square), which combine dye sublimation, garnet, mica, and thread on paper, open to 22 x 8". Sewn with a come and go binding, so the book to be hung, like a quilt. In a black lipped clamshell box.

Each page is its own tantalizing abstract offering. Opened completely and hung, the obsessive whole is wonderfully more than the sum of its parts.
$900

A Bird's Eye View
By Mare Blocker
McCall, Idaho: 2004. One-of-a-Kind.

4.375 x 5.875 x 1.5". 32 pages. Recycled papers, silk, thread, and ribbon.

Abstract, obsessive, and wonderful: stitchery, color, design, and the artist's peculiar angle of vision.

Mare Blocker: "Map and nest - a young bird's primer on how to be a big bird and find food."
$1,200

Paradise Lost
By Mare Blocker
2003. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 8" Acrylic ink on paper. Housed in a lipped clamshell box. Hand-colored, accordian bound, Magnani Incisioni paper.

Mare Blocker describes Paradise Lost: "A book about what our President is trying to feed us. Birds are the characters in the book and instead of feeding them worms, Bush (a vulture like bird) is trying to feed the other birds thread."
$450

Purgatory: The Soul Alone
By Mare Blocker
1999. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 8" Acrylic ink on paper. Double accordion, with cut-out scenes. Housed in a lipped clamshell box. Depicting three scenes of purgatory: love, hell, heartburn.
$350