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ZINE CREAMERS - NICHOLAS GOTTLUND

Everyone seems to know

Nicholas Gottlund

, although I have never met him before. I hear his parents own a printing press and he lives in the middle of nowhere? For a while I for some reason assumed Nicholas Gottlund was a 17-year-old sophisto who happened to know everyone and was well-informed about everything through the net and still went to high school, (secret cool). But of course, he is not 17 but 27, and put out our friends' books: Coley Brown's

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Jam Jelly Honey Wild Rice

and Andrew Laumann's

New Messages

. I admire his printmaking skills, immaculate craftsmanship, and drive to create and distribute self-published artists' books and zines. Nicholas Gottlund is a machine.

Day Book

is a 28-page, 5.5-by-8.5-inch, saddle-stitched, hand-bound artist book printed in an edition of 50, but it is sold out now. This the AP edition of five that has a silk-screened cloth book cover. Here are some photos to cream over…

What is this ceramic, acorn treasure of a jar? What do you put in there?

Here is what looks like Nicholas's bed, where a large book in a plastic bag is tucked under a a bed sheet. What is that? What are you reading?

Great tone with low contrast black-and-white photos on gray stock.

These are a gathering of photos from the last five years spent in isolation.

Wild Prayer

is a 16-page, tabloid-size black-and-white offset publication on newsprint. This one is has a larger edition, like 1,000.

It's giant, see?

Wild Prayer

is based off his white series on visual distortion, acceleration, and the loss of consciousness.

Delicacy in detail, magnified.

A silhouette of tangled limbs.

Next on Gottlund's agenda is an all-letterpress book collaboration with

Peter Sutherland

printed from photo-engraved copper plates. Primitive shit. Anyways, you can get these zines through

Gottlund Verlag

, his small publishing house, or see some other things hes made on his

website

.

MAGGIE LEE