{Two dancers on rollerskates at New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Image credit: The New York Public Library}
The State Library of New South Wales has just purchased several of our artists’ books recently exhibited in By This Unwinking Night. I mention this piece of good news because it is exciting (very! The stuff of squeals! The stuff of would-cartwheel-indoors were space accommodating) and timely. I seem to operate on a roughly one in ten system. You probably do too. One piece of brilliant sparkling news to nine rejections, unanswered emails, dead ends, almosts and otherwise. I suspect most of us operate this way, one in ten, though it is not something we always hear. We don’t often hear about all the proposals that failed for one reason or another, no, those we keep for dwelling on and mulling over in silence with the odd grumble release.
So, celebrating the one fabulous piece of news today with a Haigh’s peppermint chocolate frog, and leaving the nine little shadowy misses in the corner. Yippee!
{Page details from A headdress to show you how much I care, one of seven artists' books recently purchased by the State Library of New South Wales.}
+ An earlier look at A headdress to show you how much I care.
