30 Apr 02
After a very sound night's sleep, I woke with an even deeper commitment to letting the collage elements choose themselves in the process. That is, in this morning's collage I was even less careful in selecting the text, images, and colors that seemed to belong in today's art/journal piece.
A phone call yesterday renewed my commitment to spontanaeity in my art. In that call, someone (whose opinions I value highly) commented on how much she likes this collage series, with special mention of the Harry Potter collage I did for the 19th. That's the kind of validation and encouragement that helps me, and contributed to this morning's surge of confidence in my art/work and the process that creates it.
I'm pleased with the results, and wonder if the colors in my current work are simply accents or have significance.
Today's elements include hot colors, a woman looking up, an an architectural piece that shows rich, wooden dwellings almost bursting from a typical gray apartment building. In a corner, ice-capped mountains are almost banished by these warmer, more aggressive elements. The words include "passage," "clarity," and the phrase, "It's your life. How do you want to live it?" Small accents of copper leafing.
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This is a morning when the collage speaks for itself. And I'm very pleased with the results, since I felt a slight trepidation choosing the images, colors, and text with such complete abandon.
It's showing me how things fall into place if I set out like The Fool, without preconceived ideas of how it "should" be.
