(Right) The front cover of Beach Bricks.
(Left) A sample page, illustrated and including part of the essay.
Read the full essay here.
Cleveland, OH area shales mined to make bricks.
Beach Bricks:
Lake Erie Bricks of the Holocene
A short illustrated semiological, paleontological, and geological history of bricks.
Who invented bricks?
What do bricks have to do with civil rights and anti-war movements?
When were they made?
Where do bricks come from?
And the burning question:
Why are they washing up onto the beaches of Lake Erie?
Join me on a journey through time from my home state of Ohio to my studio in Houston, Texas.
Zine Specs:
• First printing will be color-copied; second edition will be letterpress cover and risograph.
• 8.5” x 5.5”
• 24 pages, guts only; 28 inprints with cover
• Saddle-stitched, stapled.
• Made lovingly in Cleveland, Ohio, and printed locally in Houston, Texas.
• Published via Subversible Press, in collaboration with Kate Mulholland
More about Subversible Press:
Subversible Press is a not-for-profit umbrella of publications that exist solely for public education in paleontology and mineralogy, as well as for the proliferation of the love of zine-making. It operates as its own entity, outside of, but for, the Houston Gem and Mineral Society.
