Edition of 11 created for Bibliotek Nordica
Experimental Edition Unique created with offcuts and trial prints from the edition

Relief, letterpress and digitally printed at KKV Grafik (Malmö, Sweden), Vingaards Officin (Viborg, Denmark), and my home studio

HUSH for chamber ensemble is written for an ensemble of paper. Project produced for Edition/Basel 2018. Performed by Ensemble Papier. Each sheet is letterpress printed with a text detailing how to play the instrument, and a few words describing how it might sound. Created, printed, and conducted by Megan Adie. Videography by Margarit Lehmann. Recorded at the Kaskadenkondensator Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, and debuted at the Papiermühle Museum on July 27, 2018.

NETS 1-16 explores positive and negative space through the medium of relief printmaking. The "positive" prints are so lifelike as to be confused with an actual net sewn onto paper.

Printed at Edition/Basel 2018, NEXO, and exhibited at the Kaskadenkondensator Gallery, Basel.

Audio composition and artist book by Megan Adie / Aviary Press, for Edition/Basel 2019, Session 1, DURCHSICHT/through-seen

Recorded in the elevator at the Werkraum Warteck PP, Basel and first exhibited at the Basel Papiermühle Museum, 16 July, 2019

With the voices of: Annie May Johnston, Beth Fein, Carrie Ann Plank, Gertrud Genhart, Heather Leier, Hilda Lindström, Meri Andreasyan, Sean P. Morrissey, Senso Stampa, Sieglinde Wittwer, and Wei Wang

For over a decade, I've been making and saving what I call "print echos" -- a byproduct of the printing process, created when paper is fed through the rollers of a press. With the Danish poet and translator Andreas Vermehren Holm, these castoffs were connected to Echo, who in Greek mythology was in love with Narcissus. Her love was damned by the gods, and her body was taken away, leaving her with only the ability to repeat the last words of other people's sentences. This book is an attempt to give Echo her body back. Echo's.

Images by Megan Adie, with text by Andreas Vermehren Holm, Nora Joung, and Megan Adie. Offset and letterpress printed, Aviary Press Editions.

Edition of 300

Photos taken immediately outside a house I rented in the Mission District of San Francisco between December 2016 and December 2017. A sunny corner lot, it was a popular hangout spot, and a meeting place for peculiar trash items. You could even say it had a trash magnetism, the amount and variety of which was truly astonishing.

Scraps, leftovers, bits of metal, things overlooked and ignored: give them another look. Risograph printed artist book with scrap inclusions.

Printed in San Francisco, California and Malmö, Sweden with text by Megan Adie / Aviary Press

Edition Variable.

A document of one person’s daily commute, taken from the train crossing the Øresund from Denmark to Sweden.

Photos by Liz Jones. Book by Megan Adie / Aviary Press

RECTO/VERSO is a quiet political statement, a response to the 2016 presidential election. Taking the pages' recto & verso as a metaphor, the text explores the differences and similarities between the two sides. Printed on Kozo paper, all the text can be seen through the pages, allowing for multiple meanings as the book is read.

RECTO/VERSO is part of the College Book Art Association traveling exhibition "RISING TOGETHER" on display through 2021.

Letterpress printed from original text by Megan Adie. Edition Unique.

Edition of 50
artist book with pressure printed relief and screenprint
16" x 8" closed, 16" x 16" open
2018

Three artists discuss the sound of the state of being in Havana, Cuba, in three languages, visual and written. None of these languages are translations, but rather individual investigations of the same concept. The four subjects, Buscar (to search), Esperar (to wait), Resolver (to solve problems) and Querer (to want) are common in the Cuban vernacular.

Artist proof was printed at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana and the Taller de Serigrafía René Portocarerro in April, 2017, during the Edition/Basel "Printed in Cuba" residency program.

All imagery by Carrie Ann Plank. Text by Hanoi Pérez and Megan Adie. Bound with the assistance of Yerandee González Durán. Edition completed in San Francisco, 2018. Bound and printed by the artists with the assistance of Chris Rolik and Keisha Mrotek.

Created for the 2017 Print Exchange at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Letterpress from polymer and lead type, ghost printing, and relief. Printed on Rives BFK in an edition of 40.

RIVER is a book about one river--its origin, fact, and force; but it is also about the relationship between a river and the places it separates and joins together, and the people that recognize it as their own. The book was written, designed and printed in Basel, Switzerland, on the banks of the Rhein, and on the two letterpress machines at Druckwerk. Printed from handset Medieval type and hand-inked linoleum blocks, with "titles" in pochoir and india ink. Hand-bound in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Edition of 24

RECOLLECTING is an act of historical excavation, memory, and original source material. Quotes from the 19th century detail the lives of passenger pigeons, formerly the most numerous species on the planet, extinct in 1914 due to overhunting and hubris. Letterpress printed from hand set type onto monoprinted folios, providing windows into the past, or into nothing.

Edition variable of 3.

Ark First Edition: ALONE / Becoming the Other in Translation

Made in collaboration with Copenhagen's Ark Books and Ordered by Colour, this book contains two texts, printed here for the first time: one by Paul Auster, and one by Siri Hustvedt. Structural concept, printing and binding by Aviary Press. Book is made with two spines, and functions as a closed system; it cannot fall open without removing one of the spines, and when both spines are out, the book has no and and no beginning--thus presenting a nonhierarchical structure.

Letterpress printed from polymer and hand bound by Megan Adie / Aviary Press. Edition of 6

Held in the collections of the Royal Danish Library, New York Public Library, and Oxford University.

Made on residency in Venice, Italy, as a response to the colors of the city. Letterpress printed from linoleum.