Gayle Montgomery in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico is making One Year of Collaging...
Why did you decide to do this project? I decided to do this project to keep the creative juices flowing even on days that I am blocked or have too much going on to do a larger piece. This year began with difficulties and I did not have much energy to engage in larger and more detailed work so I used a 6 x 8 book and started to make the small collages. I limit my time to approximately 15 minutes so it is spontaneous and intuitive...some are wonderful and others not so but I am creating just the same.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? The project gives me new insight into my world and a new awareness of my being. One begins to view their surrounding quite differently when they set a conscious goal to create something big or small every day. Years ago I was in a debilitating work environment with little time to create and decided to do something similar by writing a haiku every day for a year. At the end of the year I made a handmade book with 52 envelopes where I inserted all the haikus I had written for that week which I printed on vellum.
I have always felt that a creative person is a happier person and with my own blog I try to inspire others to 'take up arms' and find an outlet for creativity however large or small.
See Gayle's collages HERE.
Why did you decide to do this project? I decided to do this project to keep the creative juices flowing even on days that I am blocked or have too much going on to do a larger piece. This year began with difficulties and I did not have much energy to engage in larger and more detailed work so I used a 6 x 8 book and started to make the small collages. I limit my time to approximately 15 minutes so it is spontaneous and intuitive...some are wonderful and others not so but I am creating just the same.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? The project gives me new insight into my world and a new awareness of my being. One begins to view their surrounding quite differently when they set a conscious goal to create something big or small every day. Years ago I was in a debilitating work environment with little time to create and decided to do something similar by writing a haiku every day for a year. At the end of the year I made a handmade book with 52 envelopes where I inserted all the haikus I had written for that week which I printed on vellum.
I have always felt that a creative person is a happier person and with my own blog I try to inspire others to 'take up arms' and find an outlet for creativity however large or small.
See Gayle's collages HERE.
Beautiful collages. I did a 365 project so I understand the scope of what you've done.
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