Please join us on October 1st at 5 PM for the October First Friday Art Walk reception featuring works by Susan Eiersema. The title of the exhibit is "Illustrated Pacific Northwest A-Z", original art work on dictionary pages.
The reception will be in the main meeting room of the Bainbridge Public Library and the exhibit will be on display during the entire month.
Susan says, "A few years back, I was given a dictionary and was asked to do something creative. This dictionary was well-loved and had seen many years of use, printed in 1946. I flipped through the pages and thoroughly enjoyed looking at the definitions, illustrations, and image reference pages. It sat in my possession for a few years. While wasting time one day on Pinterest, I came across artwork that had images printed onto dictionary
pages. Hmm, Interesting. I went to my art closet, pulled out that old dictionary, took one of the pages, and started to draw on it. These drawings were the start of a whole new project.
All of the dictionaries for this project had been damaged or discarded. I deeply revere and love books of all kinds. Just come to my home and see. Today, many old dictionaries are available for not much money in used bookstores and thrift stores. With the ability to go to your favorite electronic device and type in a word to find out what it
means, fewer people are going to the family’s unabridged Webster’s or Oxford dictionary. With my artwork, I am, in a way, recycling dictionaries that would have been, well, recycled."
