I've been covering my notebooks ever since I started scratching the brand names out on undecorated books I bought. Then I started covering them. Then I started sticking more things on. Then I started making art out of my feelings when I opened a new book. It started simple, and it's gotten to be a regular ritual, one that is really satisfying, encouraging, and freeing. As a work of art, it is more liberating than most things I do, because there are no external constraints on my collages. I'm just doing it for me, and the pace is right: about every two or three months, I start a new book, and a new collage. I may make it before I start writing, I may wait until the book has begun to be written.

Labels: art, collage