You learn as much about yourself when you read a book as you do about the people in it.
How we react to the characters we read about is so personal and speaks so much to our individual experiences.
Want to know what someone is like, what they are about, what they believe in? Ask them their favorite book. You can learn more by reading that then back asking them all the questions in the world. When books speak to us, we talk back.
The window of a bookstore with a cat strewn over tomes. Tattered pages of a favorite novel thrown open to a quote that means the most.
Pristine books on a library shelf all ready and waiting to be plucked. A single book places in a cage. There are so many images of books that reflect not only its contents but the contents of the skin it is on.
A tattoo artist’s style can help to evoke the feeling you get when you think of your most well-worn copy of your comfort book.
3D reaching out to the viewer to draw them into that world. Watercolor to awash them in emotions. A simple black outline of delicate strokes placed just so.