Sunday, April 11, 2010

Journaling

A while back I began a journal, mostly about working at the University. Around the time I realized I'd been here twenty years I found a stash of student diary/calendars in the trash and some website prompts for journaling. I went great guns for a bit but then moved on to other things. I recently worked on it again. Each time I play, I go back and add layers to the first pages and begin a few more. This time I played with printing bubble wrap. All I did was play all day.This page laments our campus news paper (the official one). It's no longer published in a paper version and the online calendar of events just isn't as nice as the printed one. The articles are okay online. I miss my paper. At least the student paper is still publishing. The background is folded paper cutouts from the newspaper that I had made when I began the journal.These are some backgrounds for journaling. Right now I don't have much to say but I'll go back and write in them later. The left-hand page is just paint. The right-hand page is printed tissue paper torn and glued on and painted.The campus itself is mostly neo Gothic but the Law School was designed by Eero Saarinen and the design a diamond motif and sharp angles are used throughout. The brown page below is layers of masking tape painted.

1 comment:

Rachel said...

These are really interesting, colourful pages. There are some things for which an online version just won't do, aren't there!