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| Who we are | Leah Ollman Peter Everwine Ian Tyson C.G. Hanzlicek Brian D. Cohen Robert Cremean Public & Private Collections |
I first visited the Press with Jerry Rothenberg when I was teaching at UCSD in the Fall of 1992. I had already met Bill and Michele at the private view of an exhibition “Phillips/Tilson/Tyson” at UCSD. I was very interested in what they were doing and it was suggested at that point that Brighton might publish a collaboration between Jerry and myself. Like good wine this took some time to mature. I was back in San Diego in 1998 and after some reconsidering as to the form it eventually saw the light in 2003 for Diane Rothenberg’s birthday. I was greatly impressed with the care with which it was done. Another project around that time was a book with Jerry relating to his autobiography but after a lot of discussion I couldn’t find a way into this and it was dropped from my end but is still maturing at the Press I believe. The next Brighton/Tyson piece was the superbly printed “Surimono” commissioned by Mandeville Special Collections Library for the retrospective exhibition of my archives in April 2004. | It was around this time that the current “work in progress,” Ghost, was conceived. This has been a true collaboration fed from both sides, moving from my own texts to those of Li He (Li Ho). The images are developments from the previous “Surimono” idea and have required great expertise to print and I can’t imagine them better. Working with Brighton one values the painstaking care and attention each piece takes, a slow thoughtfulness one accepts as essential to the end result. Working on projects from a distance makes for difficulties but these are always minimised by continual discussion. The fact that Bill and Michele are personally involved with the creative process is the most important aspect of the Press’s identity. My only question is—what are we going to do next? —Ian Tyson |
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