It’s rare that I attend gallery openings too far away from the standard, well-trodden, wine-stained First Thursday gallery paths, but 23 Sandy’s gallery exhibit for July was just curious enough to draw me out. It featured various artists all set to the same task, to create a handmade book based on the theme of sexuality. As you can imagine the results were wide-ranging from sweet and tender to downright disturbing.

Visitors meandered, flipping through the delicate pieces with the provided white gloves. A hip young grandmother lectured her grandsons after overhearing their whispered snickers. My favorite book is featured above. A story told as you flip through a wallet.

I suppose all wallets could be viewed as stories, some more revealing than others. My wallet story is quite voluminous and contains capivating pages such as: my Rogue Nation Brewery id Badge, Multnomah County Library card, Hot Lips punch card, and a receipt from Edgefield’s 3-par golf course. I think that about says it all.