I want to know everything

Creating a painting, "I want to know everything"
The Soviet people were a reading country. I loved to read, I collected a library of popular works from the 70s, 80s, Dumas, Scott, Dreiser, Chekhov, and other authors.
The children began cleaning, building rooms, and the bookcase, due to old age, fell into disrepair. I offered to sell the books or give them away, because of the complete immersion in creativity, there is no time for reading, I switched to audiobooks, it is convenient to listen and paint pictures at the same time!
Alexandra said no, I will take the books, she loves and appreciates books.
And so the painting "I want to know everything" was born.

Alexandra:
My 23 years on canvas. Preface:

While making repairs in the house, the question arose: what to do with the library. The decision of the owner of these books (Sergey) was determined - to give them away.

What do you mean? Where to? - such are my indignations. After all, the library contains the complete works of Leskov, Chekhov, and Sholokhov... in a very rare edition.
On the same day (saving books) I put them all in boxes and dragged them to my dressing room.

So at my age of 23 he sees