Star Names

"A Field Guide to the Butterflies" by Kaysha Siemens

Original Art by Kaysha Siemens

“Star Names” is a graphite drawing on a vintage library date-due card.

I have a precious small collection of these cards (which are no longer used by libraries in decades, so they’re a very finite resource), and every so often I pull out a few and make art on them. Every single one is hard to let go, but it’s also wonderful to see how every one of them connects with a different person in a special way. I love the charmingly crooked dot-matrix printed label on this one, and the unintended poetry of the title. I couldn’t resist putting some golden stars in the lady’s hair to echo it.

The card will be mounted and matted with an acid-free mat (the matted example image is from a previous card, but the mounting and matting will be identical), and will be shipped flat and ready to fit into any standard 5 x 7 inch frame.

To see more of my work, visit my website at www.kayshasiemens.com, and follow me @kayshasiemens on Bluesky and Instagram.

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About the Artist

Kaysha Siemens

I was born and raised in Canada, and now make my home near Asheville, NC, USA. My work is primarily figurative and narrative. I work mainly in oil and graphite. My current primary focus is Mnemosyne, an ongoing project inspired by Greek myth. My goal is the object of beauty, but that goal is achieved through engagement in process, and neither aim is worthwhile without meaning and intention. I seek to talk about the ordinary with the language of story, to arrest with exquisite imagery, and ultimately to leave viewers with a feeling, a lingering sense, that they have had a brush with the sublime.