the story
My father loved learning and words.
He didn’t go to college but everywhere he went, he carried a small black notebook filled with vocabulary words to study.
One day in the studio, I combined my father’s love of words with my world of images. These 92 small paintings came to me playfully and spontaneously over several months.
By pairing these images with a list of challenging words from my own reading, I found an unpredictable conversation between the two.
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Jacqueline Barnett in front of the original paintings from which the cards were made.