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For many years, I've carried a pocket notebook in which I inscribe daily musings, documentary information, grocery lists, etc., etc. These informational notes find their way into the art journals that are most often completed back home in my studio. Fully completed notebooks are archived in handmade book boxes.

Gerard Lange art journals, Appendix J, Notebooks (book box), hosing daily and event-specific notebooks, 30.5 x 22.5 x 12.5 cm (12 x 8⅞ x 5 in.).

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ALL HAIL

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Elements of dreams and daily existence merge together to form our own idea of reality.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 10: Going Further East, spread 17 (pp. 34–35), 2004–2006, 28 x 44 x 3 cm (11 x 17 x 1 in.).

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Dublin –Temple Bar and surrounding area.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 24: Cork, Not Cork, spread 17 (pp. 34–35), 2021, 28 x 44 x 3.3 cm (11 x 17 x ¼ in.).

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Plans for building an Asian-themed gate in my garden.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 19: Setting Stones, spread 11 (pp. 22–23), 2014–2015, 28 x 44 x 3.5 cm (11 x 17 x 1 ½ in.).

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Travel journal from 1998 that I kept while enrolled in the Cortona, Italy program through the Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia along with collected ephemera and the cigar box that housed them with the clamshell book box constructed later to make Book 2 cohesive with the other journal bindings.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 2: Italia MCMXCVIII, book box, 24.5 x 21 x 10.5 cm (9½ x 8⅜ x 41⁄8 in.); spread 35 (pp. 70–71), 16.5 x 23.5 x 5 cm (6½ x 9¼ x 2 in.), 1998.

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The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 15: Wanderlust, spread 26 (pp. 52–53), 2010–2011 (2012), 28 x 44 x 5.5 cm (11 x 17 x 2¼ in.).

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In more recent journals, I have been intermixing more of my own photographs to tell the story of my journeys—as can be seen with the "three" left thumbs.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 24: Cork, Not Cork, spread 15 (pp. 30–31), 2021, 28 x 44 x 3.3 cm (11 x 17 x ¼ in.).