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