10- Day 1 (Shredding)
I have decided to call my new collaborative book “10″ in honor of it being nearly 10 years since graduating from Tyler, and almost 10 years since I last saw my collaborator Marci.
Aside from some minor painting of the cover and gessoing some pages, today is the first day I actually did anything to the book. I have been spending a lot of time this week shredding some of my old journals and sketchbooks. I already threw out one giant garbage bag full of tiny little scraps of paper, and was about to throw out another tonight, but then I decided to see what happens if I glue lots of tiny little scraps of paper to my book. I think it looks really cool, and I love the idea of reusing them this way.
(Update 2/27)- 
I love when weird coincidences happen! Today I opened up my Google Reader and discovered that one of my favorite blogs, Unclutterer, has an article about what to do with old journals! They advocate burning them if you don’t want to keep them. I half-wish I had a safe place for burning things because having a big bonfire would have been a great deal more fun than shredding. But then again I wouldn’t have ended up with all these cool little scraps of paper to make things with!
(Update 03-01-09) I spent a ridiculous amount of time this weekend gluing paper shreds to five small canvases. I love how it looks but I’ve had enough! I was thinking about keeping the giant bag of shreds for future projects, even possibly doing a larger canvas, but it’s just too tedious. Each one took at least 45 minutes. Five is enough. Plus it started to feel like I was just making an excuse to cling to this stuff. Down the garbage chute with it!
Even shredded I can still see that handwriting that used to appear and baffle my attempts at reading in so many of your prints/paintings.
The white with the light colors and small marks kind of reminds me of Twombly painting.
Haha! Now you REALLY can’t read it. Even more annoying?
Actually, no. Now I know I couldn’t even if I tried. It really has become abstract pattern.