In this visual essay, I present a body of work surrounding and investigating the letterpress workshop as a site of knowledge production. Print practice generates a sort of performative, embodied knowledge about and expressed by the objects and materials of printing. Ornament, alongside the alphabet, participates in the printing process, and may be extended from a form of 'enhancement' into an active site of communication. The printed matter presented here uses ornament to illustrate and record aspects of print practice that cannot adequately be communicated through or represented in text. In the article, I use theories of technology and documentation from Flusser and Gitelman to provide context and critical reflection on the printed matter. Together, writing and printing engage in a 'feedback loop' that records on and extends a developing printing practice.
