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Summer in the time of smoke, heat, and rain
2023
13 x 11.5 x .5″
Edition of five with one artist proof
Relief print, decayed Kozo, Yatsuo Papers and bound in Kyoseishi paper
The summer of 2023 started with forest fires, smoke and air unfit to breath. Across North America a disjointed jet stream holds a heat doom stationary in the south and west while overwhelming New England in rain. The currents in the Atlantic Ocean are changing and scientists are in awe of the rapidness of the climatic catastrophe.
Otoño
2019
17 x 12.5 x .5″
Edition of 6
Otoño is a celebration of a friendship with Hanoi Pérez founded in the 2006 over a silkscreen press in a Cuban print studio and strengthen with a passion for libros de artistas and many glasses of rum. Otoño was printed over three long days in October 2019 using six screens, one stone, wood blocks and section of a tree with 12 colors and 212 impressions.
Roiling Habana
2018
104 x 9 5/8″
Edition of 9
Silkscreen overprinting on pages from the 1978 Atlas de Cuba is bound as a four-page accordion book. There are three bi-lingual essays by Steven Daiber, Gladys Linares a retired secondary school teacher and Josuhe H. Pagliery a young video game artist.
On May 14, 2004, we stood on the Malecón witnessing thousands of people marching in protest to the Bush administration’s strengthening of the embargo against Cuba. Our Spring 2016 trip witnessed events unimaginable a decade earlier. On March 20, 2016, President Obama visited Havana, the first President in over 80 years and five days later the Rolling Stones gave a free concert to over 600,000 people in Havana. We were there with friends who were in awe. Fidel spoke for the last time at the National Party Congress on April 19, 2016.
Steven Daiber 
Red Trillium Press
www.redtrilliumpress.com
Instagram – @aquiesredtrilliumpress
BIO
For two decades, Daiber’s artistic focus centered on Cuba. Starting in 2001 with his family, he made annual trips, spending anywhere from two weeks to a year in Havana. Working in eight different print shops alongside Cuban printmakers, Daiber developed artist book collaborations that recorded the strained politics between the U. S. and Cuba and the toll it took on individual Cubans. He delved into the stories of lives lived, building camaraderie with Cubans and documenting the history unfolding before him.
This process of visual story telling has been honed during the repeated visits to Havana. Daiber now returns to themes of environmental issues explored before his time in Cuba with renewed interest in the stories he finds within his personal landscape.
After 7 decades Daiber carries the experiences of landscapes that no longer exist, the subtleties of flora and fauna that his daughter’s generation will never witness. Living in rural Massachusetts for over three decades has presented a broad canvas to engage with a changing landscape. Working outdoors utilizing found materials as the matrix, have profoundly influenced his work. These images serve as talismans of the land, formed through years of observation, collecting, imprinting, and collaging.