Jim, Middlemarch, and Moby Dick

Jim was reading Middlemarch. On the spine of his Middlemarch was a sticker from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I believe it was from Aug 11. I feel happy knowing Jim brought his Middlemarch to the Met. I like Jim and Middlemarch and things that get stuck on books. I feel less upset about the Met going from colorful metal pins to transient paper stickers. One advantage of those stickers, I suppose, is that they can get stuck on books one brings to the Met, perhaps to read in transit on those horribly crowded 6 trains… Those pretty metal pins don’t get stuck on books. You can try… but they fall off. Maybe I could’ve tried affixing the pins with artist tape. I love holding things together with artist tape… they remind me of those expensive colorful tapes in molecular biology labs. I love molecular biology and running gels. I do miss those days somewhat but I am an artist and an aspiring lawyer now. So there’s that.

Jim read Middlemarch when I was reading Moby Dick. I am still reading Moby Dick. When I go back to studio 1 & 2 in two weeks, I hope to be reading a different book, maybe Ender’s Game finally. And I hope Jim will tell me about the biography he started about that quirky physicist who discovered and named quirks.

Things that got stuck on my Loomis book.

I finally finished nibbling on my Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis.

There inside the cover was an except about President Eisenhower learning to paint I ripped from a NYTimes Magazine and affixed with artist tape. I must have found it important or interesting… or perhaps felt inclined to post the salmon color  with a bit of warm gray on the except against the white of the inside cover. I have also been in an artist tape phase where I affix everything with this nifty reversible adhesive strap. (I am so passionate about artist tape). There on top edge is a paper clip that I must’ve used to hold a tracing paper to an anatomy page I was copying. To the right is a lime colored paper clip that goes well with an orange-green paper tab. Here are the things that got stuck on the inside cover of my Loomis book and this is my accidental collage.