O.K...rockin' and rollin' now (I think).

I dragged myself 'kicking and screaming' to the studio to work on something, ANYTHING!! I started catching up on journaling assignments from LK Ludwig's "Point and Shoot Journaling 2", an online journaling class which started last November. This particular assignment was about identifying and mining our own personal symbology, based on the umpteen thousands of photos we have in our own archives. Some of mine are:

trees/branches, rocks/rock formations, Madonna/Virgin Mary, sunsets, hands at work, rotting fruit/flowers, rust, aged surfaces, crosses, saints, shrines, windows/doors, female fertility figures, cherished old photos of my mother and father...

Then, we are to write what these symbols mean to us personally. Then, on to doing some art journal pages with handwriting and photos and dry media... I also chose the very excellent CD "Masters of Chant" by those wonderful Gregorian monks. I think my MUSE peeked out around the corner today (I saw her out of the corner of my eye)! 

What do YOU do to find/coax your MUSE out of the shadows?

1000 Journals DVD

The 1000 Journals Project was launched a couple of years ago by a man named 'someguy' who lives in San Francisco. These journals are now traveling all over the world, via random people who make a journal entry and then leave the journal in a random place–ready to be picked up by the next person who finds it. I had the wonderful privilege to make a journal entry in one of these journals last year during ArtFest, in Port Townsend, Washington. I met 'someguy', who is just a regular guy with an ingenious idea! Unfortunately, I did not write down the journal number that I journaled in, so I don't know where it is in the world right now. In many instances, journalers will scan their entries and post them with the journal number and where it is at the moment. The documentary has just been released, and I can't wait to see it. Be on the lookout–you never know when you might find one of these journals! 

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