{"id":2806,"date":"2021-10-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:59:54","slug":"reading-miniature-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/reading-miniature-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Page, MFA \u201975, Celebrates Her Love of Reading with Miniature Works of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left rkv-gutter-bottom-triple has-large-font-size\">An ardent bibliophile, Page interprets her &#8216;life list&#8217; of memorable volumes onto library circulation cards <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Once upon a time\u2014as those who grew up before the age of bar codes and digital scanners recall\u2014libraries kept track of their books using a system of paper index cards. Housed in sturdy wood or metal cases with multiple deep drawers, the \u201ccard catalog\u201d told patrons what books the library owned and where on the shelves they could be found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the \u201ccheckout cards\u201d\u2014tucked into pockets glued inside the front cover of each volume\u2014were used to record who had borrowed a book; while on loan, those pockets would contain yet another card bearing a hand-stamped date indicating when it was due to be returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That bygone era of analog record-keeping serves as the inspiration for an ongoing project by artist Barbara Page, MFA \u201975. An avid reader since childhood, Page has memorialized the act of consuming the written word through an extensive series of miniature artworks\u2014created on vertical, lined, 3-by-5-inch checkout cards, some repurposed from her local library\u2014each emblazoned with her impressions of a book or other work of literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Art cards by Barbara Page of three things she has read: Macbeth, Becoming, and Joy of Cooking\" class=\"wp-image-3517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp2-296x166.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The cards Page uses include both those recycled from libraries (far right) and blanks she purchased. <em>(Images provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The works comprise a variety of media including pencil drawings, d\u00e9coupaged photos, and ephemera like postage stamps and product labels. \u201cI started collecting these cards and illustrating them just to remember books I\u2019ve read, rather than keeping that information in journals I never looked at,\u201d Page explains. \u201cThere are plenty of books I don\u2019t illustrate, because I don\u2019t really get a strong image from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Page, who lives in the Village of Trumansburg outside Ithaca, has amassed more than 750 cards so far, posting them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbarapagestudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/page_art_studio\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> and displaying them at exhibits. Their inspirations range from childhood classics like <em>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/em> and <em>Mary Poppins<\/em> to such diverse contemporary works as Michelle Obama\u2019s memoir <em>Becoming<\/em>; the bestselling Anthony Horowitz mystery<em> Magpie Murders<\/em>; Min Jin Lee\u2019s novel <em>Pachinko,<\/em> a National Book Award finalist; and (aptly) <em>The Library Book<\/em> by journalist Susan Orlean, which is both a true-crime tale about a notorious L.A. fire and a love letter to libraries as civic treasures.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding art cards depicting four books including Roots, Lolita, and The Invention of Nature.\" class=\"wp-image-3246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_017.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Page stores her hundreds of artworks in an antique library card cabinet. <em>(Photo by Jason Koski \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Last spring, the art-and-design press Bauer and Dean published <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/55787082-book-marks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book Marks: An Artist\u2019s Card Catalog<\/a><\/em>, a coffee table book that\u2019s part memoir and part showcase for more than 400 of Page\u2019s works\u2014the story of her life told in prose and through her visual interpretations of books she has consumed during seven decades of reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImagine a library holding all the books you have ever read, books that helped shape who you are today,\u201d she writes in the prologue. \u201cImagine the catalog for that library. It exists in your mind, much as the catalogs for many public libraries around the world now float in cyberspace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Art cards filed by year\" class=\"wp-image-3245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/2021_1203_014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Page&#8217;s media include ephemera such as maps and postage stamps. <em>(Photo by Jason Koski \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of Page\u2019s illustrations lean toward the literal: The<em> Scarlet Letter<\/em> card sports a bright red \u201cA\u201d and the typed words \u201cSINISTER MINISTER,\u201d while <em>Lassie Come-Home<\/em> comprises a photo of a collie and drawings of a map and a pocket watch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others are more enigmatic and require close knowledge of the text\u2014like the card for Margaret Atwood\u2019s novel <em>Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em>, which depicts part of the label from a package of toilet tissue and the phrase \u201c4 sheets only.\u201d (It\u2019s a reference to the fact that in the book\u2014a finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize\u2014one parsimonious household imposes that limit for each trip to the bathroom.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of Page\u2019s cards are based on book-length works of fiction or journalism, there are some exceptions, like plays (Euripides\u2019s <em>Medea<\/em> and Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Macbeth)<\/em>, Irma Rombauer\u2019s classic <em>Joy of Cooking<\/em>, even a scuba diving manual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Book Marks<\/em> also features cards based on works by fellow Cornellians, including Diane Ackerman, MFA \u201973, PhD \u201979 (<em>A Natural History of the Senses<\/em> and <em>The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife<\/em>); Junot Diaz, MFA \u201995 (<em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>); Mollie Katzen \u201972 (<em>The Moosewood Cookbook<\/em>); and E.B. White 1921 (<em>Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em> and <em>Stuart Little<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Art cards by Barbara Page of three books by Cornell authors (DIane Ackerman, E.B. White &amp; Toni Morrison)\" class=\"wp-image-3518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BarbaraPageComp1-296x166.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Page has created artworks memorializing books by other Big Red alumni. <em>(Images provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Page houses her collection of miniature artworks in an apt vessel: a vintage card catalog case she found in a serendipitous moment that might have sprung from the pages of a novel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had done 50 or 60 cards, and I needed something to put them in, and I knew that libraries were getting rid of their card catalogs,\u201d she recalls. \u201cSo I thought, \u2018I\u2019ll go look in some antique stores and see if I can find one.\u2019 And I rode my bike two blocks from my house and the very first place I went, I found one. So I thought, \u2018Okay, this is predestined; it\u2019s time to get going on this project.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top image: Page at home in Trumansburg. 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