I Could Live in This Room Limited Edition Print
I Could Live in This Room Limited Edition Print
I Could Live in This Room limited-edition, signed and numbered prints by Jennifer Drinkwater.
Edition of 100. Each piece is printed on high-quality Hahnemuhle photo rag paper measuring 18" H x 12" W that includes a 1.5" white border suitable for matting and framing. Please allow two weeks for shipping and handling.
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Please note: print does not come matted or framed.
Twenty percent of profits will support Blackmur Memorial Library in Water Valley, Mississippi, one of the two independent libraries in the state.
The community conversation that inspired I Could Live in This Room…
In 2016-2017, retired writer Dixie Scovel moved from her Long Island home to Water Valley, Mississippi.
Before moving was ever on her radar, Dixie had taken a road trip through Mississippi: from Jackson to Natchez, north through the Delta, east to Oxford, and south back to Jackson. It was in Oxford where she stumbled into Square Books, a local, independent bookstore. She describes the experience that so many of us have when we walk into a really great bookstore for the first time.
“And I went to Square Books, and I went up to the second floor, and I loved the prints. And I looked around, and I didn't know so many of those books by black writers, Southern writers. And I just sort of looked around at all of those books that I had never read. And they had great coffee. And I got great coffee, and I sat down and started to read. And I looked up, and hours had gone by.
And my thought was, ‘I could live in this room. I could just live here and be very happy.’ It was just a passing kind of thought. And I went to Faulkner's house and I just wandered around Oxford and did those things, and then got in the car and drove back to Jackson and got on a plane and went home. But the experience of not so much Oxford as the bookstore just stayed with me.”
