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Monday 13 February, 2006
Here is the last collage in my 'old' journal. (I wish I had a scanner so I could copy images properly instead of having to take crappy photos of them.)
I finished a (paper) journal yesterday and began another one. The last one went from September 2004 until now - whew, what a crazy period of my life it has been.
I love 'moving in' to a new journal...putting the first tentative collage layers down, sticking in some inspiring pictures, writing my name at the front...it's like when I was a kid at school and got my stationary at the beginning of the year.
Each journal has a different flavour. The last one had a lot of writing about sleep...the lack of...insomnia...fantasising about getting lots of it. It also had a lot of thick and messy collages as I experimented with new techniques and tried to use less magazine cuttings and more of my own drawing, photography and vintage images. It's so thick I can't close it properly.
I'd like this new journal to contain more writing (poetry drafts, story ideas) than long ruminations about the hard bits of parenting. I'd like it to be tidier, less messy and chaotic. But I know it will end up reflecting my life in whatever guises it takes over the next year or so. And therein lies the beauty of it.
posted by Helen on 13 February, 2006 | 7:13am
COMMENTS
new school book
eerie spaces
within and around
words and vowels
ands exist
move forward
create momentum
and the new year is old and
the definite towers
of t and l
betray less fear
there is less peril
going
around the circles
Posted by Margi on 13 February, 2006 | 4:51pm
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