{"id":206,"date":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","slug":"books-and-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/books-and-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and more books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today I took a stab at organizing the books in this set of shelves. My books are overflowing their shelves again … still … always … it’s just hopeless. Besides these bookshelves, which are in my studio, I have a similar but shorter set of shelves in another part of the studio, plus more built-in shelving over cabinets that span one whole wall, broken up in the middle by a hallway. I also have built-in shelves upstairs, and the rest of my art books take up two sections of those — each section is about the size of the bookshelves shown here.<\/p>\n

I think it’s time to cull. Who am I kidding? It’s always time to cull. Because I can rarely bring myself to do it, and it’s downright dangerous. Today I came across some gems I want to re-read with new, older eyes, and some ideas I want to try, and some inspiration. It’s tempting to just sit down in the middle of the studio floor and revisit some of these books.<\/p>\n

Besides the overflowing books problems, the studio is something of a wreck from recent framing and matting. I mailed off a few pieces for the show at The Painted Fish<\/a>, and generally got caught up on a bunch of little projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I took a stab at organizing the books in this set of shelves. My books are overflowing their shelves again … still … always … it’s just hopeless. Besides these bookshelves, which are in my studio, I have a similar but shorter set of shelves in another part of the studio, plus more built-in … <\/p>\n

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