{"id":3223,"date":"2021-03-08T20:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2021-03-27T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T16:00:12","slug":"the-water-is-wide-an-edition-of-painted-artist-books-as-pandemic-comfort-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/08\/the-water-is-wide-an-edition-of-painted-artist-books-as-pandemic-comfort-art\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Water is Wide&#8221;: An edition of painted artist books as pandemic comfort art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I realize that I&#8217;ve never shared the variable edition of 12 manuscript books that I made last fall. Here are photos of the three verses of <em>The Water is Wide<\/em>.  5 x 8 in, Bister and sumi inks on Arches Text Wove, lettering done with a no. 2 round sable brush. Book cloth over hard cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3224\" data-id=\"3224\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-1024x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3225\" data-id=\"3225\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-1024x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3226\" data-id=\"3226\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-1024x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sq-format-pic-20201228-The-Water-Is-Wide-v3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These books were the &#8220;comfort food&#8221; of the studio this past fall. The melody that goes with these traditional lyrics is the kind of tune that sticks in your brain, but it&#8217;s soothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that I&#8217;ve never shared the variable edition of 12 manuscript books that I made last fall. Here are photos of the three verses of The Water is Wide. 5 x 8 in, Bister and sumi inks on Arches Text Wove, lettering done with a no. 2 round sable brush. Book cloth over hard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/08\/the-water-is-wide-an-edition-of-painted-artist-books-as-pandemic-comfort-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Water is Wide&#8221;: An edition of painted artist books as pandemic comfort art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-books","category-something-else","tag-bister-inks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-PZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}