There is little that compares to the rich, tactile quality of a book. I imagine artist Stanford Kay agrees: here is a small sampling of his beautiful series of paintings, Gutenberg Variations. In his own words, “Both paintings and books are vessels for ideas, experience and memory. The books we read and the paintings we love and choose to live with, define us. A book requires the reader to assemble images and ideas out of its signs and symbols. Likewise, a painting asks that you translate its strokes and drips into reason and emotion.”

images via Stanford Kay, found via Pinterest