Suddenly Today

Date2002

MediumLithograph

Dimensions13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)

Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection

Object numberDCCAH2003.088

ClassificationsPrints

Locations

Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (901 G St NW)

DescriptionLong known as a printmaker, Michael B. Platt later preferred the more encompassing designation, “imagemaker.” His artwork turned to digital explorations and book art combining images and poetry fragments. In their first collaboration, Platt and Carol A. Beane produced a book titled Forgotten Contours, which contained these pages. Beane wrote Suddenly Today Again while mourning her son. Her emotion is apparent in Platt’s image of her holding a bunch of asparagus that resembles a bouquet of flowers.