drying in the morning sun

Book will be drying in the morning sun while I'm at church.

I want to remember forever

Silk crayon, smudged with water and fingers.

Messages written in white out about some of the things I want to remember forever.


































Standing on the book.

My feet left smudgy footprints because I had been running about barefooted all morning with a kite and my sister.

The sunshine is beautiful.

pages are curling

Coloured silk crayons on some pages.

White paint on some pages.

Sunshine on some pages.



















Admire how the pages are curling and the colour is running.

I am being reckless

Because I'm going to burn and compost my journal, it is my challenge to stick to biodegradable and environmentally friendliness as much as possible when creating this book.

No sticky tape. No staples. No synthetic ribbon or material. No plastic or metallic embellishments.




















The idea is that materials for creating art surround me everywhere I go. Huge clover flowers. Homemade glue. Scrap paper. The pretty blue insides of an envelope.

This page is upside down in the book, alas.

Yes, I will burn this page.

sticking paper in

Here I am attacking the pages with glue and sticking in draft copies of school work I will gladly burn. All 64 pages of the book have been semi-covered and my book is getting nice and heavy.


































































Some pages have too much glue and are sticking together. Other pages don't have enough glue and the paper probably won't stay stuck.

That is the beauty.

making glue

Ingredients:
- about 3 tablespoons of plain flour
- about 1 cup of water

Method:
1. Heat in saucepan while stirring constantly.
2. When it starts to thicken remove from heat.
3. Cool and go make art with it.

this is how it starts

So this is how it starts.

A 5-cent 64-page exercise book.

What it's all about.

So what is all this about? With this blog, I plan to document the process with regular updates and photos as I create and destroy an art journal.

Have you heard of Wreck This Journal? After buying copies of the book for my sister and my friend, I've decided to do something similar.

I am creating an art journal with the sole purpose of burning it when finished and composting the ashes.

It's a celebration of the transience of life, an experiment to prove to myself that art can be created through the destruction and death of an object, that art is a creative process and not a final outcome.

Yes, I am going to set fire to a journal I will grow to love, and this absolutely terrifies me. Which is why I'm doing it.

xx