Moving on…

I had an unfortunate event happen a few weeks back. An out of control car crashed into our garage which was also the home of Spare Press. The car was stopped by my Vandercook 210 Old Style. The destruction was massive. The clean up has been exhausting, mentally and physically. There have been many a moment where I just want to walk away from it all.

The presses and equipment survived thankfully. I have boxed up countless boxes of god knows what that was thrown around the shop from the impact, all laying in layers of glass and debris. It has taken weeks of cleaning, moving boxes, sorting through the stuff…preparing the garage for the rebuild. Everything needs to be moved out into storage including 3 printing presses, a guillotine paper cutter, type cabinet, etc…that is on next weekends agenda.

We lost both of our cars in the accident as well, which has left me stranded here in Ukiah…for better or worse. It has slowed me down tremendously, and has given me time to think about what the fuck I am actually doing, and why I do it. Like I mentioned, I sometimes want to walk away from it all.

Spare Press and spareorgan are a solo operation. I have spent years building this slowly…painstakingly. Built around the need to document my friends music, photography, artwork that would otherwise go possibly unheard or unseen by anyone except a few close acquaintances. It has had its ups and downs for sure, several hiatus’, financial ruin. But somehow I have managed to keep bringing it back, breathing new life into it. It can’t end I keep telling myself…