Gary Garrels: I have to say, I became obsessed by this painting and continue to think about it over and over again. For me, it's one of her most beautiful paintings. One begins to understand the sense of time that's embedded in it.

Vija Celmins: It's a painting and it's also like an object, like the book itself is sort of pushing on the edges of the painting. And it's about the same size and it gave me a chance to indulge in using blues. I found these Japanese books when I had a show in Tokyo, and I found them in a used kind of pile on the floor in a flea market.

Nancy Lim: Every crack and fold and worn away edge is re-described. So you see a sliver of shadow along the right hand side of the book, a little bit along the bottom, as well as the left edge. And so you recognize that's a very thin book sitting on top of the canvas.

Gary Garrels: There's a sense that it's been in someone's possession where the surface has been rubbed and stressed and deteriorated. So it becomes a record of a lived life. And a book itself is a record of memory, of imagination. And so, the work of art itself becomes, I think, a kind of metaphor for what a book is.