A vacuum-press embossing technique Andrew developed at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with printmaking artist-in-residence Stephany Dykes, refined further during a residency at Iris Project — the Venice gallery that Samuel Freeman Gallery became after closing. Mark Licari donated handmade paper originally intended for lithography work with master printer Ed Hamilton of Hamilton Press; Andrew later bought a wide selection from Hiromi Paper in Culver City, working with a staffer named Nilo to test ten paper types before settling on the one that held the deepest embosses without splitting.
He produced four sets of a seven-emboss series: two for individual sale, two kept together in collectible, acid-free-lined wooden boxes he built himself. He's also drawn to the papers that split under the press — the tears themselves, recorded permanently, read to him as more beautiful than a perfectly held emboss.