People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The Three Muses asked for a Book Cover or for using a book in our art. 

Photo by Morningbird Photography on Flickr; the envelope is a previous collage I did; other elements by Studio Manu.

I am woman

Take a Word asked for I AM WOMAN. There was some kind of serendipity as I’ve just finished Unless, by Carol Shields, a study in awakening and the belated loss of innocence. Mainly the author reflects over the role that is reserved to women: "The world is split in two between those who are handed power at birth, at gestation, encoded with a seemingly random chromosome determinate that says yes for ever and ever, and those like Norah, like Danielle Westerman, like my mother, like my mother-in-law, like me, like all of us who fall into the uncoded female otherness in which the power to assert ourselves and claim our lives has been displaced by a compulsion to shut down our bodies and seal our mouths and be as nothing against the fireworks and streaking stars and blinding light of the Big Bang."

Background is mine; doll on the right uses elements by Rebecca Mcmeen; texture by Kim Klassen; words: lyrics of I Am Woman, by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton.

The Lady of the Lake

The Three Muses challenge this week is PHOTOGRAPH PLAY. I cropped, altered and layered two of my daughter's photos taken the first one in London and the second one in Amsterdam, both on September 2014.

Texture: Kim Klassen.

The Portrait of a New Woman

The Three Muses challenge this week is BOOK COVER. My Brit pen pal Roseanne have found this book in the attic of her grandma's house. It seems that this Madeleine Ashcroft, besides writer and suffragist, was an important feminist of Victorian England. Definitely a woman ahead of her time.

Girl: Hidden Vintage; Heart: Finecrafted Designs; everything else: Studio Manu.

Time off for a book

The theme is LEISURE in Take a Word and other doing digital art, what I most like is reading, a passion that has started in my childhood.

Yesterday, I went to the first meeting of my Book Club. Several women chatting over a book (A Visit from the Goon Squad), sipping tea or coffee and eating cake. Lovely!

Quote in the book by Zetta Hupf; quote on the paper by Confucius; all illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith; background by LunaNYXStock.