The images in On the Blue Shore of Silence are glicée prints based on original watercolors from the Isla Negra series by Mary Heebner. They were produced on Somerset Velvet 300 at
Duganne Atelier, Santa Monica, under the direction of the artist.

The text was printed letterpress from polymer plates on linen paper by John Balkwill at The Lumino Press, Santa Barbara, California on a Vandercook UN-1 proofing press. The poems were digitally typeset using Adobe Jenson for the English text and Arrighi for the Spanish. Trajan was used for titling.

The text was printed on handmade linen paper produced by the artist with the assistance of Pat Almonrode at the
Dieu Donné Mill in New York City. The cockling on the edge of the linen sheets was purposefully intended to allude to waves approaching a shore. The linen wrappers were individually painted with indigo pigmented pulpby the artist at Dieu Donné.

Images and poems were tipped onto larger sheets of Fabriano Tiepolo. Each copy of the book is placed in a handmade case constructed with imported Japanese bookcloth over boards and weed. The cases were produced at The Lumino Press.

On the Blue Shore of Silence was produced in a edition limited to fifty copies; the first twenty-two are Special edition copies with each including one of the signed, original watercolor paintings from the Isla Negra series, mounted
in a self-standing mat. In addition ten hors commerce copies were also produced.

Mary Heebner
(bilingual edition by Simplemente Maria Press 2001)