Thursday, January 18, 2007

Inspected by Sanchez

What I forgot to mention yesterday is that the section on journaling ATCs in Bernie Berlin’s book inspired my doorway card. At some point I wouldn’t mind trying this out myself. But anything you do creatively is like a journal of what is going on in your life right now, isn’t it?
For example, I discovered a little square of paper that read “Inspected by Sanchez.” in a cigar box while I was cleaning up. A real person—male or female (but I’m thinking it’s a man because of the handwriting)—handled that box of Cuban cigars, which ended up in my collection of assemblage material.
Today’s ATC was inspired by a picture of my father’s family (but I overworked it so much that it’s difficult to see what it really is in a small size like this).
Recently I found my grandmother’s journal for 1945, and I scanned a page—which reads in part: “Ken’s birthday. Ted phoned for him to go to Toronto & help him with the store,” and added that to my digital collage. What I find interesting about my grandmother is that she wrote to fit the space available. If she had four lines, she’d fill that…half a page? No problem. Personally, I’d hate to be limited by the micro space in one of those pocket diaries because I do run on so.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

More and more amazing! I can see the most of the details in the grandfather one. And the wonderful thing about the small size is when one steps back a bit and views it as a whole, it has a wonderful abstract quality. Great exciting colors.

Sanchez is so touching. I am already composing a great after-hours life for him with much derring-do, passion and lovers. Or maybe exhausted from inspecting he goes home to a wonderful quiet and loving senora to eat a humble menudo stew in front of a glowing hearth.

Jeanne

Anonymous said...

Another look at your father's family card reveals the positive upside down image of the man in the hat becomes the head of an African tribesman with a light color hat on with his arms stretched out under brightly colored garb. He is seated cross-legged at a feast? Religious ceremony? Around a fire?

I have been looking at these off and on all day.

J.

Bernie Berlin said...

Your cards are AMAZING!!!
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off of my keyboard...

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