Books and Bookmarks (4)

Re books: 

Michelle Jaeger Shaw had been, 

all her life, 

a voracious reader, 

had delighted in everything 

from fluffy romances 

to serious treatises 

on the behavior of baboons. 

Television sets and radios 

could be blaring 

while Micky sat curled in a chair, 

her pale head bent over an open book, 

one hand playing idly 

with a strand of her fine hair.

—Marjorie Dorner, Seasons of Sun and Rain

Re bookmarks:

Not only are hand-painted bookmarks—artmarks!—appealingly tiny, with terrific beautility, and possessing an intrinsic freshness factor, but also they have a captivating contextuality. Between gigs, they go on sabbatical or into hibernation for varying amounts of time—sometimes months—before they are pressed into service again at which time their freshness factor is especially keen; each new book jacket offers new conditions that highlight different elements of a given artmark, bringing to life details that may have escaped notice previously. 

Have I told you how much I like hand-painted bookmarks?

She Loves to See Her Name
on the Library Borrower's Card
2 x 6.5" bookmark; acrylic, collage, and oil pastel on paper
abstract
2020
sold