More of Aisling's art journals
©2000 - 2007 by aisling d'art
More of Aisling's personal art journal pages, continued from Aisling's Art Journals, 2000 - 2004
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8 Oct - 17 Oct 2002
The meeting with HT had been a success, but that gave me one more person to feel responsible to.
At this point, the stress of dealing with my husband's erratic behavior almost outweighed my commitment
to remain in the household until my youngest left for college. I was very fragile, almost brittle, and
my internal conflicts began taking a toll on my relationship with HT. His patience
is all that kept us together during the next few months, and kept me from a complete breakdown.
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Artfest 2003
Against my better judgement, I attended Artfest 2003 as a teacher. And, as usual, I kept a travel journal for that week.
As I re-read this
journal and remember what was actually going on behind-the-scenes, I realize that I was bluffing
in this journal; I'm not proud of that. But, it was the end of nearly 20 years of bluffing, and those
behaviors were still on auto-pilot. There were still good, valid entries in this journal, but the event
was not as happy or inspiring as I pretended at the time.
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Decluttering 2003
This journal documents the process of weeding out my belongings as I prepared to leave my husband. At
the conclusion of the journal, I auctioned it at eBay, so even the journal was part of the discarding
process. It's
a fairly raw journal, and my most popular. For that reason, the entire journal remains online:
Aisling's Decluttering Journal - a personal art journal.
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Spring 2004
This journal was written shortly after the divorce was final. In it, I came to terms with
the fact that I missed my children badly, although--since they're now young adults who'd left the nest as well--I could
not turn back the clock. I felt that it was important to put this part of the story online as well. Just
because you leave an unhappy relationship for one that works, you don't shed all problems. Sometimes
you actually add a few, in the process. That said, I am vastly happier with my life now, and do not
regret leaving my husband.
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July 2004
This was a brief attempt to complete another all-collage journal. I liked the art, but I was
doing it for the wrong reasons; I can't journal to recapture something from a darker past, even an art style.
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Since then...
I stopped putting my art journals online because... well, it became a boundaries issue. When I was in my previous marriage, I felt that I had no boundaries, and, hey, why not share my whole life with anyone who's interested?
Today, life isn't perfect, but it's pretty darned good. There may be some interesting times ahead, but that's okay. I'm feel more fully myself again, now, after an amazing series of adventures. In most cases, I've learned who I am by trying to fill others' expectations of who I should be... by their definitions, anyway.
I plan to put my travel journals online. And... there may be others. I'm not sure yet.
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