Inspired by Japanese Textiles

A lovely busy day: drawing with friends, listening to the rain, visiting with an old high school buddy, and spending some time at an art installation called Keep: Modern Library. The subtle colors in this piece are all fragments of book cloth that have been salvaged from discarded library books. If you can zoom in on the various shapes, you might be lucky enough to spot a call number or a hint of lettering. Here is part of artist Jody Alexander's statement:

"KEEP: Modern Library is a project and series inspired by withdrawn library books, Japanese textiles, the art of mending, and a KEEP stamp that was discarded from a library. One particular book, Records Management: A Collegiate Course in Filing Systems and Procedures, has been my muse throughout the project as she represents a once useful book that has become obsolete and has no place in the college library where she resided since 1974. Nonetheless, the book is endearing to me for its bookness: design, color scheme, endpapers, graphic images and outdated office scenes. Imagery from that book floats through all the pieces in this series like apparitions."