My introduction into the world of archetypes came when I was a girl by way of fairytales and nursery rhymes. To this day Rumplestilskin and the Snow Queen repeatedly show up in my poetry. When I first saw the kiln at the university where my potter son was a student, memories were stirred of Hansel […]
A collage works in the same way a dream does. It’s a visual snapshot of various symbolic images that can bypass the brain’s process time and convey a lot of information at once. ~ Colleen Redman 1. The above and the following are a few selected photos of my Asheville Potter son’s collage journal. Josh […]
I can’t find my working notebook or an available empty one, so I started this on the back of a used envelope. Now at the keyboard, I’m wearing a bright orange Halloween cat cap with black ears that stick up because having it on helps me to keep my sense of humor. My office has […]
In the spring of 2000 when my Asheville potter son, Josh was 20 years old, he came across an old journal he had kept when he was 16. “Everything in it was silly. I hated it,” he said, in answer to the question I posed ‘when did you start journal collaging and why?’ “I wondered […]
AKA: I call it The Magical History Tour. I haven’t made a collage since I started blogging. And what is a blog, but a blank page to fill up with images and words that tell a story? Some pages from my eldest son Josh’s collage journals were exhibited in an art show this past March […]
Warning: One house isn’t big enough for 3 collage artists. All forms of record keeping interest me. Since receiving my first “Dear Diary” when I was 10 years old, I’ve gone on to keep photo albums, dream journals, baby books, and scrapbooks. I’ve always enjoyed making collages, but when my Asheville potter son, Josh, began […]
