This week’s addict is an artist whose photos I found via Pinterest. In 2009, she posted these images of her large collection of sketchbooks on her blog, with the sad tale below:

“In May I installed a series of my sketchbooks as part of an exhibit called Sculpting Time at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland. These notebooks represent images and writing that have accumulated over the last several years. I try to write five days a week as part of my process of finding direction and clarifying ideas in my work and life. I write three pages and then paint a page with color which later gets an added collaged drawing. Some notebooks are only visual records of what I am pursing in the clay realm and some are collages of the varied streams of life. They are like the lining of my mind….
This week one of the notebooks was stolen from the gallery. I am stunned. Suddenly the memory of what those pages held gains importance. From each volume I have selected one single page or spread to exhibit, but the whole book lost represents a month or more of personal reflection.”

A notebook was stolen from me in 7th grade and I still haven’t gotten over it, even though it contained nothing of importance. I can only imagine how it would feel to lose something with so much thought and work and creativity in it…

Read more at: the lost notebook – Rough Ideas