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"The character depicted is Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and she is speaking one of her lines from the play. The keepsake has given rise to a side project called Gertrude Has a Few Questions"--Artist's website. "This set of five questions was printed on Sakamoto heavy paper using polymer plates and pressure printing in an edition of 33 copies in the spring of 2021"--Colophon.

Limited edition of 35 copies, Art Library has copy 19. "The text is a set of 50 short, sometimes very short, stories of events from my growing up. It started as a remembrance of my mother and expanded out to include my family, my neighborhood, my elementary school and my nervous stomach. The pressure printed images included relate to certain of the stories. Bound using the 'Secret Belgian' binding, a binding with an interesting sewing pattern at the spine."—Artist's Website.