Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Wrecking post 3

Yay some more wreckage! Allthough I wasnt so rash as in my previous post ;)



I finallly worked on my name page. There is actually a story behind it:
I was going to my drawing class at monday where we instead of drawing had to work with paint this time! With our fingers instead of with brushes ;) We had to pick an object and paint it on paper. The we had to document how the object would smell, sound, taste and feel. My object was a strawberry and it tasted and smalled really sweet. I used mostly read, pinks and whites in my painting and I was very excited how the painting turned out.

Sadly the painting wasnt totally dry when I had to took it home, but my instructor said it would be fine to roll it up gently. So I did. When I came home and wanted to show it to my BF, the paint has glued itself to the back of the page and when I tried to losen it, the paper teared badly leaving traces of paper stuck on the paint.

Normally I would have felt very sad, because something I put all my effort in was ruined like that. Now I still was sad however I also saw possibilities. Since I used mostly reds, pinks and whites, I decided to cut hearts ouf of the painted paper and decorate my journal with it. So I transformed the loss into something new! I am still sad over the loss, but I am proud that I came this far.


Oooooh colorful instruction page. It makes it more cheerful!



And then I actually chewed on a page! It tasted horrible. It was really bitter. Blergh! I can still taste the page! Maybe before anyone should try it, they should season the page first XD

4 comments:

  1. Your name page looks lovely! And I love the story behind it, how you were able to transform the loss of the strawberry in to something else. I guess this journal wrecking really WORKS.

    Everywhere I've read about this project people have complained about the bitterness of that page. I wonder if I should put some sugar on it first? LOL

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  2. I hope that will work! ;) Sounds like a plan to me XD

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  3. O, the journal is working!! You've come to see beauty and possibilities even when something went not as planned! And the result is awesomeness!!!

    LOL, ew, now I really am not looking forward to chewing that page!

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