“American Dreamers is a collaborative mural in Los Angeles that I worked on with Vhils in 2018. Original photography by Jonathan Furlong. We created a lithograph print of this mural at Idem Studio – a historical, fine-art print shop in Paris, where have worked masters like Matisse, Picasso, Miro, Dubuffet, Braque, Chagall, Giacometti, and Léger. Today the printshop is dedicated to contemporary artists such as Sophie Calle, JR, William Kentridge, David Lynch, Paul McCarthy or Raymond Pettibon. By using flat stones or aluminum plates an image is drawn on the stone or transferred onto the plates that is then met with water and oil-based ink that is rolled across. The paper is placed and the matrix is ran through a press where the oil-based ink is transferred onto the paper creating the lithograph. The density of ink is very generous and gives an exceptional result.“

– Shepard Fairey