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ANCESTRAL NOTES, A Family Dream Journal
creative nonfiction by Zelda Leah Gatuskin, 2001, Amador Publishers
ISBN 978-0-938513-17-9, Trade paper, 176 pp., $12.00
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About the cover:
Horrors! Amador's favorite (and very tolerant) illustrator, Claiborne O'Connor, will not be available to create another cover on the usual short notice. Good thing she has a fabulous artist son to step in and take over. What an honor to have Brian O'Connor as the cover artist for Ancestral Notes!

About the Ancestral Notes Collages
The nine b/w illustrations for Ancestral Notes began as full-color collages composed from magazine cut-outs and affixed to heavyweight paper. The collages were then photocopied and printed as grayscale images. After determining where the image would be cropped to fit the proportions of the book, I used black or white ink to draw directly onto the print to enhance lines and contrast. (This was before the days of home computers, scanners and graphics software.)

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