Tools of the Trade

2022

Accordion fold book, 6” x 6”, 18 panels, fabric board covers, paper sleeve closure. The ten hand-colored drawings represent objects used in making art: binoculars, pen, pencil, brush, compass, square, eraser, paint tube, and sketchbook.

The paper enclosure wrapper includes a quote from Lama Anagorika Govinda:

“It is the action that matters, the act of shaping, the concentration of consciousness, of intention, of will power, in which life is focused on a particular unit of matter.”