molly berkson

Too Blue Press is a hand paper making project that kicked off in April 2024. The goal of Too Blue Press is to share unique handmade paper with my larger artistic and creative community, and also to create an outlet for me to experiment and play within the medium of paper making. Overall, I see Too Blue Press as a project to explore the formal, material, and conceptual properties within a sheet of handmade paper. 

Too Blue Press releases a new, limited edition handmade paper pack on a quarterly basis. The materials for each release are variable and experimental, and accumulated from my life, work, and habits. Discarded landscaping plants, food scraps, damaged clothes, dollar bin ephemera and more undergo processing to become paper, each sheet embedded with the colors, textures, and histories of each material. 

Each pack is made with artists and creators in mind, which is reflected in the thickness and size, as well as treatment of the fiber during processing and sheet formation. Each sheet is internally sized so that water- and oil-based ink does not feather or separate. Each sheet is 11”x14” in order to allow for many possibilities and creative uses for a single sheet. Each pack also contains a booklet that explains the process for making each paper, and some additional writing about the meanings and histories of each material. I hope to see this paper transform into new projects, and I think of this project as a way to invite collaboration within my artist communities.