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i knew immediately,  upon seeing for the first time,  that she would be the first image.   She is the "heathen child".   I've talked about her here before.   off and on over the years.   I laid  a bouquet of flowers at her feet.  A bee came.  To the flowers…. and to her.

 


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and when i read the prompt  ( i will not repeat here.  Go to Sparklinglotusink.typepad.com  nichobella)  this too came clearly to mind.   i thought i maybe should wait,  but didn't want to.  And so…two.

i worked 2 hours.  It was difficult to make myself use the glue stick.  I put them there,  took them off.  Tried to change them,  thought about why i "couldn't".  Questioned self about that.   Taking away,  putting back.   and it also brought to mind other things.  Someone asked if this is Fun?   Yes.  and maybe by these images it might not look like fun?   and i thought about how i am.  

so i thought about a lot of things.   How Fun to me is somehow better labeled Pleasure.  Which i do have a lot of.   What's the difference,  i wondered.  

 


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and then….my question to Acey.   Without knowing "where it's going",  how can pages be in a  coherent order?   These two very likely are Not in order,  tho maybe they will prove to be.    It's the thing i have about gluing things down.

i DID have fun.   i had a completely  mesmerized 2 hours of PLEASURE.   I sit and look at them now and  love them.  They say so many things.

* Edit:    i woke in the night and realized i didn't want to say what i did.  it's not for me to judge anyone else's sense of anything,  let alone their sense of fun.   what i realized too is how much i still feel a need to defend my self when it comes to the  ex.  There's a lot of stagnant water under that bridge.

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24 responses to “fun [edited*]”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    They both look grand .. you’re having a grand opening to the art of collage. 2 hours of fun …

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  2. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    What fun! Art journaling is so much fun. And painting! I make a spread out mess! I hope you continue to have a great time making art, even if the art is temporary on the page, or in your mind. (You could try temporary glue.)
    Funny stuff, fun with a spouse… Some fun must not be judged, but sometimes we give it up unless we’re alone or with like-funess kindreds. It’s good to go and do our own things.
    It must be kind of strange that X is there.

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  3. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    guess what–the glue stick is not permanent. It can be peeled off the paper gently once everything is really dry. Some things that are very thin will tear but sturdy paper will come off. Can be glued somewhere else. Collage isn’t a forever thing. Some of the images in my new this week work came out of my old journals. Peeled off- glued to something else.
    I am not fun either.

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  4. jude Avatar

    for me, fun is a less (self) conscious thing. I only think about fun when I’ve been deprived of joy. But Joy is different from fun.
    Maybe the joy has become not worrying about fun or joy.

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    “fun” is shorthand for a feeling that defies description … getting lost in what one is doing … coming back up and realizing time has flown by … that to me is “fun”
    And while the ultimate “order” will be of your choosing, I see much warmth and wonder in each of these collages …

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  6. Acey Avatar

    this is intensely deep, piscean and right on. so glad you’re back to a routine of swimming among us.

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    Fun is a difficult word really, built up by our society into a consumer idea. Fun for me is something that leaves me feeling happier/more content than I was before I did it. Content is a word I need to look at. 🙂

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  8. Acey Avatar

    So to answer your question: you don’t. That’s what makes a gluebook a gluebook. Each page (or page spread) becomes its own universe. It’s own coherency that exists in that space and that space alone.
    that’s what makes it fun to create. Also joyful to behold for anyone’s eyes not just your own.
    I KNEW THAT SUN CARD WAS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
    also thank you for the smile that bloomed upon first opening this screen. It grew and grew all through the post. Until you asked me how to achieve coherency. Than I oughtright laughed.
    The fact that you don’t – that you can’t, really, unless you plot it out ahead of time so it’s more of a collage project than rolling with the flow of a collage-based challenge – is both the delirium and zen core of a gluebook. no words to explain though. it has to happen from the inside to be Known.

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  9. Acey Avatar

    thought: it is the warm stillness of Deb spinning and then knitting. wearing or giving what was made.

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  10. Acey Avatar

    sorry to be all over this thread but I’m now realizing you asked a question I can answer in a more concrete way.
    After you have completed the booklet ask Alyssia to help you find a place it would be possible and relatively convenient to make LASER color copies. Copy everything in the booklet. (is you take it apart you can fit two or three folio-sides on a single copy). Once that’s done cut each separate collage apart and arrange it the way you want it to Go. Assemble that order page by page, within a different booklet. Hold the original as it was made as a keepsake in the ways you grew (THAT part will be coherent and also deeply meaningful) throughout the month of coming home to collage and who you ARE within this medium of self-expression.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    OH!…well then, O! OKAY.
    now i get it.
    each page becomes its own universe. its own coherency
    that exists in that space and that space alone.
    okay then…YES. Big Yes.
    when i read the word book i immediately translated
    to a coherent progressive story. But this is just
    Great. Just the thought of this is ….. ~Fun~
    Smile and Love,

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. and it was like 2 minutes

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. to not be judged. and here, to not judge.
    it is strange sort of. Mostly that he has no interest
    in this place. or the Goats. the Fun Goats.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    ok then.
    i think you’re fun

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes and i’m just going to Go…

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    Acey’s comment below makes all the difference.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    content is a good word to look at

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have already found that Copy Place some weeks ago.
    and yes…this original will be a keepsake for sure.
    this aha and what i am sure i will end up doing
    with todays prompt already holds a LOT of meaning

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  19. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Oh Grace you made me smile so much my face muscles hurt. But in the best of ways.
    Each page is it’s own world. Your world.
    And now you will find the place where people donate old magazines.

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  20. Michelle Slater Avatar

    SO–I deleted all my history six months or older and commented at Spirit Cloth. Jude says it took! Now lets see if I have anything to add besides “Yay”-maybe next post.

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  21. Acey Avatar

    you will be set for life if there’s a magazine donation station near you!

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    I’m thinking at the library. Socorro had a box by the door.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    But also, I cant get much
    THERE IS NO ROOM. Like really, no room.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    i still have to retrieve you in the mornings but
    i really want you to be here…please
    PLEASE keep on keeping on

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