The Reader....

 

 

I love this board....I loved it the first time that I saw this pattern that was well over 100 years old....

it reminded me of a library, stacked with books and books and even more books....with comfortable places around the edges of the building to sit and read and ponder....and in the center is where you can go for help....how lucky one must be to work in a library surrounded with time travelers....

things have changed in these last years, yes.  but many people will never let you pry that hardback book out of their hand or their paperback, which they have folded this way and that to take everywhere with them, just in case they have a chance at some point to slip in some sweet words and do some traveling....

the reader....

 

is a new limited edition piece of 10

 

19" x 19"

 

$265.00

 

colors of:  georgia clay, spice tan, sienna, sandstone, eggplant, blue sea, midnight blues and rose to list some....

 

this Parcheesi piece is based on a game board pattern from the late 1800's.  the original piece was auctioned for $15,990.

my colors were very similar to the original but I wanted to create a piece that was forever timeless by adding a story on how this piece became....my friend recently posted on facebook a study of the main colors used in specific movies....I ran with that idea, thinking it would give me the creative ability to cross a design into different centuries....

maybe this is why I love this piece so much, the combining of centuries as books often do.  so that is where the name 'the reader' came from....a reader is a time traveler searching out destinations.

then and now.....the first photo was taken in our area many many years ago.....the second photo is commonplace in our college town today....

blending the past with the current is something that I love to create.....