Mitchell Library Reading Room looking north and south, 2015

Charcoal, graphite and watercolour on machine made paper

PXD 1402 items 4 & 5

As artist in residence at the Library, Bokor had access to the upper levels of the reading room. He was asked to work in dry media such as pencil, charcoal, pastel or oil crayons to avoid spills or fumes from solvents.

While John went almost unnoticed, little that went on below went unobserved by him … He watched and drew as people read and researched, daydreamed, chatted, dozed off, or flirted.