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Monday, December 28, 2015

Kiala Givehand's Journal Page Response to My Challenge!

I'm one of the guest instructors for Kiala Givehand's year-long online art journaling class "The Journey Within 2016". As a promo for the course, Kiala hosted in December a blog hop in which each teacher gave Kiala a journal page spread challenge.

I write about my challenge for Kiala in this post. One of my favorite altered book workshops I teach is Altered Books As a Way of Seeing. In it I teach how to use portals (doors, windows, stairs, paths) in altered books as a way to examine your life, your interests and passions, your dreams. Door and windows are particularly powerful because of their deep symbolic meaning over the centuries. They also speak of thresholds -- or moments of reflection -- as well as the more popular concept of future possibilities and opportunities yet to receive, achieve, or move into.

I love the image that Kiala uses in the spread above, because of its mirrored reflection. You actually have two portals with perhaps two different choices of possible movement -- one into the air (perhaps involving thought and mental concepts) and one into the water (perhaps involving emotions and feelings). Plus Kiala adds a smaller portal as a footnote to the page. Love that!

Here's Kiala's blog post on her response to my challenge page.

Friday, November 7, 2014

AEDM Day 7: "True Love"

Art Every Day Month Day 7: "True Love"

Sunday, November 2, 2014

AEDM Day 2: "Spiritual Activist"

Art Every Day Month Day 2: "Spiritual Activist"

I wondered how it would be today, it being Day 2 of the AEDM Challenge. I had an Open Studio today so worked on my journal page on and off when people weren't visiting. I created a whole other page but it wasn't falling together. I couldn't find the right images in the moment. So I stopped and started again. I've done enough of this type of work to know that if something isn't clicking then wait and take it up again another time. I don't sweat it, just leave it until another day. I like the page that came after, this one. It fell together pretty easily and I like how it's "me" all over the page -- my spiritual self -- the one that journeys the path, the nature lover, the beast that calls to me and is part of me. This is what I love most about intuitive or soul collage -- it speaks to you in the moment and for ever.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 1048

Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 1048: Trust

Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 1047

Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 1047: Shadows Are Fallin'

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 1045

Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 1045: She Sells Seashells

Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 1044

Daily Journal Page Challenge..Day 1044: Punta Mita Beach Bird

Lying on the canopied beach beds at Punta Mita -- these little mynah-type blackbirds would be flitting around looking for food and reveling in the beach air. This photo is a silhouette of one caught by my camera through the muslin.

Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day1043

Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day1043: Breaking Away

Separating yourself from a person, place, or situation is never easy. Part of you is always looking back over your shoulder -- until the place you desire to be begins to feel like home, begins to feel a part of you. Then you wonder how did I ever live in that other world? Why couldn't I see? How could I have been so mislead? How could I have been so dense? Then the next step is to be compassionate with that self that lived there -- in that past, in that situation -- to not judge it, to not judge yourself. I think perhaps that's the evolution of consciousness -- that's Truth revealed.