If you’re wandering in the beautiful Nampa Public Library, you may notice fragments of words between the columns on the second floor. Grab paper and pencil and make a rubbing on each of the 3 colorful acrylics or 3 aluminum panels to discover two separate “poetry paths”. I thought up these “paths” as a way to explore the library and consider the smaller details.
I painted the back of the acrylic series that together reads,
Write To Be Understood
Speak To Be Heard
Read To Grow
The other quotation is from my favorite local author, Boise’s Anthony Doerr. It reads,
Open your eyes
and see what you can with them
before they close forever.
These were delightful to create, and fairly inexpensive additions to the new building.