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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MAGIC MAKER / ASHLEY JUDE JONAS

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Title: Magic Maker 
Artist: Ashley Jude Jonas 
Design: Brian Hitselberger
Printing: Brian Hitselberger, Olivia Kays
Binding + Assembly: Brian Hitselberger, Olivia Kays, Will Riche

2 tri-folds, 1 bi-fold with 12 page saddle-stitch booklet 
9.5” x 4.125”
Three-color riso 
French Whip cream 70lb Text, Sno Cone 70lb Text, Blu Raspberry 70 lb Text, Sky Parchtone 60 lb Text  
All elements folded in Jam Pastel Baby Blue Policy Envelope
Staple-binding on booklet
Edition of 150
2025
Following the death of her father in 2023, Ashley Jude Jonas began revisiting the photographs and objects she had collected from the handmade house he lived in in Key West, Florida for over 50 years. Described by the artist as “a shack, a museum, a laboratory, [and a] home for wayward objects,” her father’s house has long been a site of great meaning for her, particularly once she began to develop an assemblage-based studio practice as a working artist.

Magic Maker gathers together Jonas’ Instax photographs of her father’s house, alongside a series of reflections on the emotional and mental reverberations it continues to occupy for her following his death. Scans of the various objects Jonas collected over many years are also included, objects which later became starting points for a body of sculpture, described by Brian Hitselberger in an essay for the publication as “things used and lived with, a record of a life and its weather.”

Magic Maker was created to accompany Aerial Mo(u)rning, Ashley Jude Jonas’ solo exhibition at The Weather Station in Lafayette, Indiana.

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