Queer Tails: Swinging Slipper Snails

"Swinging Slipper Snails" is part of an ABC series of limited edition prints celebrating queer critters in the animal queendom. Printed in five colors, the illustrations are reduction linocuts with handset wood and metal type. Letterpress printed with oil-based inks on 100% cotton Reich Savoy, each print measures 13 x 19 inches. ~~~~~~~~~~ An edition of 22 prints, Slipper Snails, or Crepidula fornicata: Every common slipper snail begins life as male. These marine mollusks stack to reproduce. As each male settles on top, lower snails transition to female. These stacks may contain up to a dozen snails, in vary stages of transition, with attaching males fertilizing the eggs below. ~~~~~~~~~~ Queer Tails is a collaboration with illustrator Audra Laymon, printer Jessica Spring, and researcher sweet pea at Springtide Press.