How to choose a book to alter or reconstruct for the workshop. Join Juliana in her studio and check out her vast collection of altered books as visual journals...
“Reclamation Journal”
Extreme Visual Journaling meets Artist Book in this unique self expression retreat created by Juliana Coles.
For all levels. No experience necessary.
Learn to combine journal writing exercises with art making assignments in the remarkable container of an unusual artist book, not just altered, but fully reconstructed and reclaimed from the bits and pieces of self we have discarded along the way.
For registration info see www.meandpete.com
With a Welcoming Reception and Book Opening Session Friday night, Feb. 24,
Workshop Saturday and Sunday, 10-5:30 (with a 1.5 hour break for lunch)
3rd & Drawing Studio,
At the Charnel ground or boneyard of the soul, we may ask, where do these bones come from? And whose bones are these anyways so carelessly strewn about with no proper burial or rite of passage? I’m talking about the remnants of you upon which the vulture sits: dreams mutilated, desire discarded, passions left to rot, the decay of creativity, the anguish of giving up. What is tangled up in that heap of remains in the boneyard? These are the bones of you calling out, waiting to be put back together. As February nears March, the will be showing signs of spring, a time of rebirth and renewal. It is the season to remember and reclaim Self through shadow. Dig up these bones when the ground is just softening, and tell their stories bone by bone.
The messenger has found a treasure; crow has not forgotten. The answers are rich but buried beneath. The top layer appears frightful, but as we gather these bones up, what once frightened us now gives comfort. Through journaling, through mixed media, collage, painting, taping, mending, healing, we begin to see the bones singing themselves to life from the Charnel Ground of these reconstructed pages. Do not look away. What was once abandoned now becomes reclaimed. Our truest desires come forth from the realm of darkness as we greet shadow as an old dear friend. These are the stories we will tell ourselves bone by bone, page by page, when we sing ourselves back to life by combining words with images in a Reclamation journal.