Oh yes! I still get a newspaper delivered every day. I love the sound and smell, the tangible news. I clip out articles to remember things by. I love to crack open a book at night and escape to a different world. I gotta get better at writing letters, for my children to find decades hence. Lovely painting, serene. More serenity please!
Paper is for me definitely connected to serenity. It is memory in a very material way.
My art goes other ways I must admit. The tendency right now is in a darker direction. But this one was made on a peaceful evening with me trying out things in digital painting, that can't rival what you can do on paper, only mimic it in a way.