I found a beautiful book on my last trip to the library: The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffeneggar. The book is what the author describes as a 'visual novel'- a kind of grown-up picture-book, or 'art book' that consists of a simple, sad tale about three sisters, illustrated by the author's aquatints. You can see some more of Audrey Niffeneggar's beautiful prints here.
One of the pages shows two of the characters kissing in front of a door, framed on either side by aging sunflowers. It must be very late summertime in the story, because that is exactly how the sunflowers in my garden look right now. They're starting to bend their heads and their petals are curling and crisping.
Inspired by these and the beautiful sunflowers in AN's book, I made a stack of notecards using thick paper and watercolour paints. Late-summer stationery.
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