A Painter's Daybook Immensee
| Date: | c. 1996
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| Medium: | Altered book with oil paint |
| Size inches: | 7 3/8 x 5 x 2 1/2 h x w x d |
| Size cm: | 18.7 x 12.9 x 6.4 h x w x d
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| Location: | Pavel Zoubok Collection, New York |
In my library I have books printed in languages that I cannot read: Japanese, Hebrew, Polish. These books are for looking at, but not with the focus of reading.... One of my books in Hebrew has facing pages in English, a small thick prayer book with the English title
The
Festival Prayers. At the end of the day I clean my palette with a palette knife, wiping the leftover oil paint across an open page of this book. I have done this with many books: Scott's Ivanhoe, Greek Drama, Immensee. I turn a new page each day; the paint oozes out from the pressed pages; when it dries it creates a striated record of the colors I am using in my paintings at the time. Within about a year the book is thick with paint, and weighs more than one would expect. I date these books and give each one the title A Painter's Daybook. (George Deem, "Self Covered Buttons,"Let George Do It, The Post-Apollo Press, 2009, 15).
