Letterpress
Wood type
Digital printing
Artist Book
Edition of 75
Wood type
Digital printing
Artist Book
Edition of 75
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back (IDTCB)
Artist book and exhibition,
Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik / Chicago
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back explores themes of return, identity, and place through the lens of migration. Commissioned by Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and developed between Croatia and the United States, the project reflects on personal and collective experiences of belonging across borders.
At its core is a question posed by the artist to emigrant artists and cultural workers from Croatia and neighboring countries: “Do you intend to return?” Their varied and often ambivalent responses appear in the book as typographic compositions, created with historic wood type from a 20th-century printing office in Varaždin.
Printed and designed in Chicago, the book combines hand-set letterpress fragments with digitally typeset pages derived from scanned impressions, preserving the tactile traces of the printing process.
Through this layering, I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back becomes a living archive—linking diasporic voices and renewing connections between artists, language, and place.
July 2025
Artist book and exhibition,
Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik / Chicago
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back explores themes of return, identity, and place through the lens of migration. Commissioned by Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and developed between Croatia and the United States, the project reflects on personal and collective experiences of belonging across borders.
At its core is a question posed by the artist to emigrant artists and cultural workers from Croatia and neighboring countries: “Do you intend to return?” Their varied and often ambivalent responses appear in the book as typographic compositions, created with historic wood type from a 20th-century printing office in Varaždin.
Printed and designed in Chicago, the book combines hand-set letterpress fragments with digitally typeset pages derived from scanned impressions, preserving the tactile traces of the printing process.
Through this layering, I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back becomes a living archive—linking diasporic voices and renewing connections between artists, language, and place.
July 2025