Journal11

This is based off a poem I wrote after me and my second husband got together. It is about that moment when you can either run away or stay and begin to surrender to something bigger. I really didn't plan this page, instead I experimented with some of my new ink sprays and let go of an overall design. The colors ended up being very intense and I thought that this image would frame the poem well.

Journal 10

This journal is about the summer after my daughter's father died. We were living with my dearest friend and we were both poor and struggling. Still that summer invokes strong memories that are achingly sweet.

Journal 9

I love this quote from C.S. Lewis…it's so sad.The women is facing away and represents the things we pine after or reminisce about, once somethings over.  

There is something so honest about a whore's work.  Shame is inherent but the relief of being just what you are seems exotic. 

Art Jornal 8

This is one of my favorites so far. I stained the page and kept the picture of a forming star cluster.
I hand drew the tree with a sharpie and cut the birds out of plain, white paper. The poem is one I wrote after my first husband died. He had been in treatment the year before and was doing well, but died in a freak car  accident. Writing was the one place I could vent my frustration. In real life I had to be mommy and therefore strong and positive.

Journal 7

I have had this poem for years. I always tried to make it longer, make it soften after the initial shock of it's beginning. But here I let it just be. How much more would you want to hear anyway?

The page itself was free association of images. I wanted it simple.I wanted it to be more emotional then what pictorial.

Everything is paper dyed and collaged onto a page of gesso.

Journal 6

Every women can relate to a fairy tale...at least thats what my friend Mamie told me when she was taking a class on the sociology of fairy tales. I thought about it...over bearing father...lots of sisters... the little mermaid of course.

I spent a lot of time on this page. The tail is collaged from individually dyed pieces of paper. I kept the original words in the book and stained the page before drawing over it with sharpie.

This experience is all about not erasing and letting what happens stay on the page stay. It drives me a little crazy but I think I'm better for the experience of going for an image without being able to correct after the fact.

Art Journal day 5

In this entry I colleagued crumpled paper after staining it with ink. I drew and colored in the icon with colored pencils and used fake gold leaf for the crown. I discovered a spelling mistake after I scanned the journal and used gesso to erase and then reprinted the word.

This post is about how we are failed in our life. Those failings can work out and the people we looked up to become closer to us, as they become human in our experience. However is we are failed completely or very young, or if the ones that have the power in our life refuse to step down, the pain can prevent us from being able to trust. Our "gods" have the sacred duty of being our world and then gently and humbly stepping down.