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Making art is a wonderfull way to express your inner voice finding joy in life.

Very proud to be part of Series Three of intergraphia, launched in October 2024 at the Small Publishers Fair in London.

ToCall No. 20

Ruth-Wolf Rehfeldt died on February 26, 2024 at the age of 92 – with this special issue 44 artists and poets want to say goodbye with their work. All appropriate submissions have been selected to give everyone the opportunity to pay tribute to Ruth's work and life – so this issue of ToCall is a double edition. The traditional one-word poem on the front cover is based on the piece “Concrete Architecture” by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt.  

Alexander Limarev (Russia)

Amanda Earl (Canada)

Andrea Familiar (Spain)

Andreas Bülhoff (Germany)

Andrés Felipe Uribe Cárdenas (Germany & Colombia)

Andrew Morrison & Maria Stadnicka (UK)

Anett Lau (Germany)

Angela Caporaso (Italy)

Ankie van Dijk (Netherland)

Ashlee Zlatna (USA)

Brandstifter (Germany)

Charlotte Jung (Sweden & USA)

Cinzia Farina (Italy)

Claudia de la Torre (Mexico & Germany)

Claudia García (Argentina)

Davide Tocco (Italy)

Derek Beaulieu (Canada)

Diego Espíritu (Mexico)

Ege Berensel (Turkey)

Egidija Čiricaitė (Lithuania & UK)

Frank Singleton (USA)

Ivan Pope (UK)

Jérémie Wenger (Switzerland & UK)

Jim Andrews (Canada)

Katy Wimhurst (UK)

Kevin Stebner (Canada)

Luc Fierens (Belgium)

M.P. Pratheesh (India)

Michael Hampton (UK)

Mike Ferguson (UK)

Nick Montfort (USA & Norway)

Nicky Melville (UK)

Patrizia Cacciaguerra (Germany & Italy)

psw (Germany)

Rachel Smith (UK)

Raffaella della Olga (France)

Serse Luigetti (Italy)

Shloka Shankar (India)

sk. (Germany)

Stefana McClure (USA)

Stephan Wagner (Canada)

Susan Connolly (Ireland)

Sylee Gore (UK)

Terri Witek (USA)

This is the result of a collaborative project with Eva Maria Salmang, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Between March 2023 and February 2024, we sent each other work to which we responded respectively. All photos are taken by Eva, all TypoGraphics are made by psw.

Published by Plaugolt SatzWechsler, Germany, March 2024.

Designed, printed and hand-bound by Petra Schulze-Wollgast.

Mimeo printed edition of 60 copies, 42 pages, 22 x 21 cm.

REPLY2psw

This is the result of a collaborative project with my social media community on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Mastodon.

Between January and July 2023, I posted TypoGraphics on social media and asked people to comment on them with a title. I then responded to a ‘chosen one’ title with a new TypoGraphic, to which the community responded with a new title, and so on.

Published by Plaugolt SatzWechsler, Germany, January 2024. Designed, printed and hand-bound by Petra Schulze-Wollgast.

Mimeo printed edition of 60 copies, 61 pages, 22 x 21 cm.

Venla and Mark publish an interview with me in their cultural international magazine Särö 49-50. They discovered my work in a library in Stockholm when they were delayed from continuing their journey due to a storm. What a lovely coincidence!

Printed, produced and published in 2023 — thanks to all contributors, collaborators and authors!

These are truly the most beautiful moments of being an artist, when a recipient looks closely, explores the intentions and expands them with its own thoughts, experiences and interpretations. Rare best moments ...

ToCall No. 19

This issue is Green – in all its diversity.

Look what 21 poets and artists associate with the colour green?

The one-word poem on the cover is made by psw using the corporate fonts of the "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" party in Germany.

The magazine is printed with my mimeograph duplicator Gestetner 320. Mimeo printed edition of 100 copies, 12/2023.

Ankie van Dijk (Netherland)

Anne Bell (Canada)

Annelise Maurice (France)

Charlotte Jung (Sweden & USA)

Claudia García (Argentina)

Constanze Kreiser (Germany)

Danni Storm (Denmark)

Denis Bukin (Russia)

Elmedin Kadric (Sweden)

Ferran Destemple (Spain)

Jean-Francois Magre (France)

Laurie Koensgen (Canada)

Luke Buser (USA)

Mike Ferguson (UK)

Olivia Guarnieri (USA)

psw (Germany)

Roy Willingham (UK)

Stefana McClure (USA)

Stephan Wagner (Canada)

Sylee Gore (UK)

This is the result of a collaborative project with Sonja Knecht, Berlin, Germany. Between November 2022 and September 2023 we sent each other work, to which we responded in each case. All text poems are written by sk_txet, all abstract graphics are drawn by psw. Published by Plaugolt SatzWechsler, Germany, November 2023. Designed, printed and hand-bound by Petra Schulze-Wollgast. Mimeo printed edition of 60 copies, 42 pages, 22 x 21 cm.

SWITCHING

This series is made with dry transfers “Typofix – electronic special” from GDR. Mimeo printed on a Gestetner 320 in an edition of 50 copies, 13 sheets, 15x10,5 cm size, 10/2023.

No. 18 of the TYPEWRITTEN series: WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY by Egidija Čiricaitė.

"Inspired by Lithuanian textile patterns, my visual poems are typewritten into the twilight space between weaving, writing and speaking. Traditionally, weaving used to happen during long winter evenings; it was accompanied by singing and storytelling — thus tying together the craft of textiles and the craft of narration. WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY explores traditional Lithuanian bedspread patterns, exploiting (often) bilingual shifts between words and concepts, composing poetry as a score between the visual and the verbal, the verbal and the aural, the aural and the auratic, the auratic and the material. " (Egidija Čiricaitė)

This book contains 6 typewritten visual poems and 6 printer's summeries.

Printed on an old Gestetner 320 mimeograph. Hand-bound edition of 60 copies, 62 pages, 28x21cm landscape size, August 2023.

The TYPEWRITTEN series is edited, printed, hand-bound and published by psw.

No. 17 of the TYPEWRITTEN series: PSI by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt.

For this series of 26 typewritings Ruth has only used the letter PSI on her IBM electric golf ball head typewriter.

Printed on an old Gestetner 320 mimeograph. Hand-bound edition of 60 copies, 54 pages, 28x21cm landscape size, June 2023.

The TYPEWRITTEN series is edited, printed, hand-bound and published by psw.