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?
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| 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 |
