Collage is like Journaling

By Pipka

To me, collage is like journaling in pictures rather than words. I don't really start out to make something "pretty" but just let the love of cutting out pictures guide me. There's no end goal. I started this piece on a morning when I didn't really know what I wanted, rather than "needed", to do that day, part of the "retired" syndrome. So into the studio I went. The words "Get out of the house" kept popping up in my mind. Then when I saw the houses, an image I seem to be drawn to often, in an old catalog I knew that I had to have them in the collage. As I kept tearing out pages in magazines that "spoke" to me it prompted the other sentences. After assembling the collage and pasting it into my journal book, I realized this Get Out Of The House collage was a message to myself. Something I need to listen to. And I knew that I had to also add the words, to cement them in my mind.