The images in On the Blue Shore of Silence are pigment prints produced directly from twelve original watercolors from the Isla Negra series by Mary Heebner.

The original Spanish and English translations of the poems were printed letterpress from polymer plates on linen paper by John Balkwill at The Lumino Press, Santa Barbara, California on a Vandercook UN-1 proofing press. The poems were digitally typeset using Adobe Jenson for the English text and Arrighi for the Spanish. Trajan was used for titling.

The text was printed on handmade linen paper produced by the artist with the assistance of Pat Almonrode at the Dieu Donné Mill in New York City. The cockling on the edge of the linen sheets was purposefully intended to allude to waves approaching a shore. The linen wrappers were individually painted with indigo pigmented pulpby the artist at Dieu Donné.

Images and poems were tipped onto larger sheets of Fabriano Tiepolo. Each copy of the book is placed in a handmade case constructed with imported Japanese bookcloth over boards and wood. The cases were constructed at The Lumino Press.

On the Blue Shore of Silence is an edition limited to fifty copies; the first twenty-two are Special edition copies with each including one of the signed, original watercolor paintings from the Isla Negra series, mounted in a self-standing mat. In addition, there were ten hors commerce copies.

Mary Heebner
(bilingual edition by Simplemente Maria Press 2001)