Here are some collages I found in my 2017 diary. They’re each made from a single magazine ad.
They feel more relevant in quarantine than they did in 2017. Art is time travel…
How I start a notebook
First, a link to what kind of notebook, because otherwise, dozens of people will ask.
Then, the weighing in:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLzv-UAvrS/
This is a silly ritual, but sometimes silly rituals are all we have.
Next, the selection of a guardian spirit to look over the notebook. I picked Durër’s Saint Jerome in his Study for this notebook, which is aiming a little high, but that’s what guardian spirits are for:
And that’s that. All you have to do now is fill it.
You do the talking
I had this long blog post typed out and then I thought, Can’t I just let my collage do the talking?
More houses for Meg
Another batch of diary collages. I’ve made 18 so far, going to see how many I can make, until I get bored. Then maybe we’ll make a fake Zillow website and sell prints? I dunno. There’s a book to write, and I’m procrastinating. (Noticing in this batch how each house is really just an excuse to make a garden.)
See more houses here.
Humpty Dumpty
Here are some collages made with my 5-year-old’s discarded drawings of Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
My copy of The Annotated Alice tells me that the original Humpty could’ve been a cannon which was on top of a tower that collapsed after bombardment, an alcoholic drink, and a children’s game. I like what Humpty Dumpty tells Alice about using big words: “When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.”
Errol Morris once said of journalism, “It’s the Humpty-Dumpty dream of putting the world back together again, to make sense of it.”
(He could’ve been talking about collage.)
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