Two Steps Press is the independent publishing project of artist Brian Hitselberger.


Two Steps Press is based in The Weather Station in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. We focus on artist books, exhibition ephemera, and collaborations with other artists.


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BEFORE IT STARTS / GEOF TEAGUE

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Title: Before It Starts
Artist: Geof Teague 
Design: Brian Hitselberger
Printing: Riso SF5130
Binding + Assembly: Brian Hitselberger, Klara Seib

3 double-sided pages with Cover/Folder
4.375” x 7.125”
4-color riso 
French Starch Rain Speckletone 70 lb. + Dur-O-Tone Packing Brown Cardstock 80lb. 
Edition of 150
2025
For years, Portland-based photographer Geof Teague has created small works of mail art for a network of friends and lovers far and wide, pairing his own photographs with short texts to create open-ended narratives that gesture towards the play between distance and desire. His tumblr, Not So Tough, is an open archive of his photography and portraiture, which the artist has used to categorize moments of “connection, doubt, and the discovery of small joys.” 

For Before It Starts, Teague collaborated with Two Steps Press to emulate his tumblr in physical form— a suite of three double-sided risograph posters drawn from his archives. These images are intended to be “read” in any order, shifting meanings from reading to the next.  

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