In the olden days, library checkouts were completed without computer intervention with the use of cards that were signed by patrons and stamped with due dates by library staff. For over a decade, artist Heidi Pitre, who is based in Kansas City, has taken these old cards and used them for art projects. For her series titled "Permanent Record", Pitre has painted and inked scenes and images on the cards.
Many of the books are classics now painted with scenes from the stories (including a somewhat unsettling depiction of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita) or illustrations befitting how-to books. To a large extent, Pitre explains to KCUR News, what she draws is determined by what book titles fortune delivers into her hands.
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I left town and moved back 15 years later, and the scheme still held up.
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