Curious to meet the man behind these beautiful pieces that
I’ve seen my whole life when thumbing through cookbooks in the kitchen, I ask
to visit his workspace and Goines politely invites me over.
I arrive at St. Hieronymus Press in North Berkeley on an
unusually warm weekday morning. I step under the indigo awning, and Goines
greets me cheerfully, leading me into his shop. The place smells delightfully
of ink and turpentine. Dozens of his posters are tacked high on the yellowed
walls, brightening up the room with their rich colors. In the work area there
are cylinder and platen letterpresses on one end, and two offset lithography
machines on the other. The glossy black lithography machines are mammoth and
immensely heavy, hunks that max out just below 3,000 pounds. I think they’ll be
staying put for a while longer.
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