I like to mark the turning of the year in my art journal, but never know just what form it will take. This was a little scrap of gilding on black paper that was left over from another use, and it resembled the brilliance of the horizon when the sun is rising, oh so early [...]
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Looking backward, looking ahead, at the vernal equinox. Dark and light in equilibrium, with the flourishing half of the year now on the increase. Flourishes copied from a Book of Hours page, France, 1475-1499, use of Paris; feminine form of prayer. In the collection of University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library BANC MS UCB [...]
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I’ve finally completed my year journal for 2012. This year I wanted to try a different binding than the usual softcover journals I make with longstitch or cross-structure bindings. A journal that lays flat is always preferred, and a Coptic stitched spine delivers this very nicely. I’m considering this stitched spine for a book project, [...]
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I have been keeping a journal since last fall that I wanted to keep open in its binding to accept extra signatures as needed. I wasn’t sure how many pages the journal would need. The only binding I know of that can be added on to sequentially is the cross-structure binding. Above is how it [...]
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Beltane, Beltane, ribbons and love, blue skies and flowers, the lusty month of May! A page from one of my journals. The bright ribbons dance ouside my kitchen door, stirred by the breezes of the coming warmth. The Lord and the Lady at May Day, the time of the Sacred Marriage to make the land [...]
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This could be titled Portrait of the Artist as a Grownup Woman. Yesterday I visited my alma mater, which comes from the Latin and literally means “nourishing mother.” The ancient Romans used the term to refer to the goddesses Ceres and Cybele who protected their city. We use it today without fully realizing the original [...]
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Make a poem Speak a poem Sing a poem Shout a poem Bleed a poem Birth a poem Raise a poem Bury a poem Abort a poem Rebirth a poem Share a poem Teach a poem Write a poem Perform a poem Walk a poem Talk a poem Cry a poem Hide a poem Find [...]
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A friend asked me what I brought back with me from my trip to the east coast earlier this summer. Well, the list is long, some of it mighty personal, and I have already shared some of my experience of my calligraphy master class in a previous post. But one thing that has stuck in [...]
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I’m home again after two weeks on the east coast. Above is a glimpse of my journal page for summer solstice. Though it is now July, I still feel I have been dwelling in the long days of summer solstice, squeezing everything I can in to my trip. There is much to tell; it will [...]
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A couple of glimpses from my art journal: above, from a wonderful trip to Yosemite National Park last week, where we were lucky to enjoy some beautiful warm weather, a little hiking, waterfalls on every rock face, and a picnic lunch by the green, green Merced River where I had a few minutes to get [...]
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