Wisconsin Cryptids: Modern Marginalia

Cryptids are modern marginalia.

This collection explores Wisconsin folklore through the lens of medieval manuscript traditions, where strange creatures once lived in the margins of books, recorded not as decoration, but as belief, warning, curiosity, and story.

Each piece in the Wisconsin Cryptids collection treats regional folklore as something worth documenting. These creatures exist on the edges of official history, passed through word of mouth, sightings, and local memory. Much like medieval scribes who filled the margins of manuscripts with beasts and symbols, this work records what lingers just outside certainty.

Rendered through traditional printmaking and relief-inspired techniques, these pieces are designed to feel discovered rather than illustrated. They invite closer looking, quiet curiosity, and a sense of place. Made for modern homes, the collection honors folklore as a living tradition rather than a relic.

Folklore recorded in the margins.