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#(22) EASTMAN HOUSE (SILVER):

Edition of 250 of which 23 copies are signed.

Four colors 15-1/2" x 24"

Client: Tom Luddy, The Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, 2625 Durant Avenue, Berkeley CA 94720 Telephone (510) 642-1413 All signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Following the sage advice of Thomas H. Palmer's 1840 Teacher's Manual, I did just that. I had only a small amount of paper, and spoiled it laying down the first color. So, I turned it over and began anew. As I laid down the last color-a complex split fountain-a miller moth the size of a baseball flew into the rollers, and quick as you can utter a heartfelt curse, the ink was polluted with insect parts, and many of the printed posters were wrecked. So, I set aside the messed-up posters, and cleaned the rollers, and ran an opaque silver ink over the no-good parts of the image and finished the run. Not entirely satisfactory, but you can't just lay down and die because things don't happen to be going your way right now. "Tomorrow," as Margaret Mitchell said through the throat of Vivien Leigh, "is another day."