Driving home from the park
today where we spent the morning walking I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this tree. Someone had cleverly painted the heart area red, I didn't photoshop it. My daughter said it's been there for years. Today is the first time I have seen it, I just had to take a picture.
I am amazed at how much stuff I have pulled out and the amount of left over "stuff" I have as this Exquisite Corpse Project draws to a close. I am determined to use up all the scraps and leftovers from the project in this journal. I am hoping (and I think I will) have left over page parts after constructing 13 books that I can also incorporate into this journal. Even if it is just a few pages, it will make this journal so much more interactive. I am just waiting on the last sets of pages from one of the members of the group and then I can start assembling the actual Exquisite Corpse Project together. I hope it comes today, I just can't wait to start putting it all together!
I have been working very hard on new designs for my wearable collage Vessels for quite some time now. They are slowly evolving into what I imagined them to be in the first place. I find this very exciting. Looking at these tiny antique dolls, I am thinking how wonderful it would be to make something on this line out of clay (but even smaller) to incorporate into the Vessel pieces. I could make beads that would be used on the chain that they Vessels hang from or with a great deal of modification I could make doll part Vessels. Just looking at these tiny dolls give me so many ideas! Now, making the original clay pieces, molds, pouring parts, firing (and filling a kiln that takes FOREVER) and THEN making the actual Vessels will be months and months down the road. Why is it that I continue to get myself involved with work that is so amazingly time intensive?! But then again, I suppose my passion for visual journaling, with immediate results, rather balances that out.
So much for my new "Found Object Journal"...another time for that one. Instead I have found that as this Exquisite Corpse Project draws to a close I have made one too many covers. I also have a lot of left over "stuff" that is far too good to throw in the trash can. I can take all this "stuff" and make a wonderful everyday journal out of it. If there are extra completed pages (which there will be, as I have made too many and I believe a few other people have too) left over from the project I can also incorporate them into the journal as well and make it quite interactive. So, I guess instead of the "Found Object Journal" I had planned, this is a "Leftover Object Journal" ..... probably a better idea anyways.
So, I want to start a new personal everyday visual journal similar to the Flotsam Journal I made awhile back. I would like to use Found Objects that I happen across on my daily walks. This is proving to be a real challenge living in an area of meticulously manicured lawns. I have come to the conclusion that my finds for today are a true indication that I really don't belong here. I mean, seriously! ... what am supposed to do with this stuff?!
Flotsam Journal-
This is my third page for the Exquisite Corpse project that we are working on. This project is slowly drawing to a close and several of us seem to still be interested in exploring this concept further. So, It looks like there will be a second book made after this one is completed. Crusade #19 for the GPP Street Team involves making a stencil or a mask this month. For this page I used a very simplistic mask of an arch just cut from paper. It was layed on my page and paint was sponged on and beyond the edge of the mask to achieve this effect. I have also used this mask on the front cover of the book. I think this shows that even the simplest of designs can be very effective. 
today where we spent the morning walking I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this tree. Someone had cleverly painted the heart area red, I didn't photoshop it. My daughter said it's been there for years. Today is the first time I have seen it, I just had to take a picture. 
