Fêtes is a delightful forty-eight-page prose-poem homage to Calder accompanied by his brilliantly colored embossed etchings. Sandy described how these were done: he made an exact drawing in color, and then cut out the abstract shapes from sheet metal a bit heavier than the aluminum he uses for mobiles. These shapes were laid out in the open press, arranged according to the drawing, and the specified colors were brushed on. The paper was run through the press, and the metal pieces produced a subtle embossed effect in the finished print. This process is as unconventional and personal as the hammered-wire woodblocks he made years ago, and the etchings relate directly to his mobiles, just as the woodblock prints relate to his early wire sculpture. - Jean Lipman, Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977, p. 134
