Monday

Monday

Tea bag paper happiness!  One reads about how some people are intimidated by the blank white pages.  Although I have never had an issue with starting a journal spread, I can understand how some might.  Using used tea bags is another way to begin creating a work right away. Adhering the empty tea bags onto the substrate gives texture and color immediately.  One might think that the rest comes easy but it does not.  I carefully audition the rest of the collage papers.  Some feel right and some don't.  I am getting better at just gluing down the papers as soon as they feel right even though the rest of the collage still needs thought.  I have faith in myself that I will find a way to complete the work.  I know that if something seems just not right that the collage is not done and I keep working.  I always find a solution.

This piece is called Monday for two reasons.  First, I found a piece of ephemera with that word on it and, second, I completed the work on Monday. :-)  All my ephemera is coming from when I cleaned out my mother's house after she died.  I probably have enough ephemera for the rest of my life.   At least I have enough old letters and photographs for a long time.  Two wabi sabi works down and more to go.