All of My Glasses are Reading Glasses

Two hands hold open a small blue-tinted book, its pages spread wide to display the handwritten phrase "all of my glasses are reading glasses" split across both leaves. The illustration is rendered in Ana Inciardi's characteristic loose line work, with a warm tan color on the hands and soft blue watercolor wash filling the pages and book spine. A small blue bookmark peeks out from the top, and the binding and page edges are drawn with careful layered detail. The same text appears handwritten below the image, followed by the artist's initials. Reading glasses, also called cheaters or magnifiers, are simple convex-lens aids used to correct age-related farsightedness. The humor in this print comes from a familiar frustration: owning multiple pairs of glasses and finding that every single one doubles as a reading aid. This Ana Inciardi mini print draws collectors who are drawn to her text-based and literary subjects, a thread that runs through part of her broader print series. The humor is dry and observational, the kind that resonates with readers and anyone who has ever squinted at a menu. Collectors of her word-forward prints tend to seek out several at once, finding that grouping them creates a kind of running interior monologue on a shelf or gallery wall. The book as a visual object also gives this print a natural kinship with her other literary and everyday-life subjects, and it pairs naturally with her prints that center on objects, routines, and small domestic truths. The color palette, restrained and soft, fits comfortably among her other blue-toned pieces.