Professor's Bookshelf

Resuscitation. That's the last word I heard when I left my studio last night. Later, as I shut down my office computer, I got a message from an art teacher updating me on her plans to teach. She also answered some of my questions.

Resuscitation. That word was still lingering in my mind this morning. Where'd I learn it? It must have been in either Arthur Koestler's "Creative Process" or Andre Malraux' "Voices of Silence." Is it connected to that art teacher's answers to my questions? And how is this medical term like bringing a bookshelf to life?

By the time I got to our art gallery this morning, I decided to make this into my practice with the Wacom tablet and add to this blog. In my picture you see me contemplating my bookshelf. As a young man, just starting my career as a teacher (like my friend who wrote the message) I had my professor's library at hand.

Today art teachers have a bigger library, thanks to the Web. Yet, I wonder, can my old art professor's library be resuscitated? Can my library be resuscitated for future students, and for my students' students? And, in Emeralda, this game we're making, could the process be challenging or entertaining at the same time as the resuscitation my bookshelf?