Journal Three

The 3rd Journal Sketchbook I chose was, Nicholas Wycoff’s The Braintree Mission, A Narrative of London and Boston 1770 – 1771. I admit that I chose it due to it’s fewer pages that wouldn’t take as long to complete.

Because I had been invited to have a show of my Journal prints at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and because people had been encouraging me for years to make a book, I decided to create a book called  Anima, A Visual Journal by Virginia Peck that was a selection of images from this third Journal. So I hired a book designer to help shepherd me through the process. It was a disaster. With only 3 months before the opening, the designer’s mother got sick and she had to spend weeks at a time in Florida, plus the chosen printing process dulled all the vibrant colors. It was a frustrating and painful learning experience.

The best part, though, was that I was honored to have a famous author write the Foreword to Anima. Indra Sinha, who had been a 2007 Finalist for the Man Booker Prize in Literature for his book, Animal’s People, had discovered my Journals online a few years earlier, become a fan, and included me in artist interviews he was conducting. If you scroll down the page, you can read his wonderful writing, the Foreword to my book, Anima.