article: Where did THIS come from? | written down

I didn’t post this before, because it felt very personal. Actually the personal stuff is very small, and blurred out of the picture here.
This all started with the garbage text that came out of the printer when I was trying to print a picture on fabric. I kept it, reluctant to waste the printer fabric and because I liked how it looked (yes, I did think of the art journal).

I started inking the background (since my journal is just a regular notebook – well a pretty one from paperchase with a translucent cover – all my pages are primed with white acrylic paint or gesso to give them a bit of stability and let them take the colour better). I just printed directly with the inkpads themselves. I liked the stark graphic look. I added cut up bits of the printer vomit. Then I started thinking about the ‘black & white’ facts in my life – one of which I had only learned about that day. I was thinking about hard facts and how whether you deny them or not, no matter how far back in your mind you push them, they are true and will insist on being dealt with at some point. I added words and phrases that seemed relevant to me, in different handwritings, with rub-ons and stickers. Right in the middle of each page, I added a brief note of the hard facts I had in mind. That was enough at the time – and fairly hard at that.

I don’t feel they are quite finished yet.

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