#art journalling
“amen,” art journal, 2018. words from hanif willis-abdurraqib’s poem “sunday”
matls: found/collected paper, sharpie pastel paint markers, gelly roll pens, manual label maker dymo tape in black
[image: an art journal page of a chapel framed against splotches of blue paint. the sky in the photo of the chapel has been drawn over with intricate overlapping spirals of blue and green, like a hyper-precise version of van gogh’s whorls of paint. blocky, old-school label maker text over reads “i have made my home anywhere i still have a name / amen”
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“there’s beauty in the shifting of the sap,” art journal, 2018
matls: found/collected paper (inc. section of john singer sargent painting), miniature hole punch, dymo label tape in gold
[image: an art journal page made of strips of paper overlapping. the background is a desert landscape covered in wildflowers, with a painting of a woman’s face cut into strips and outlined by circular holes. she looks directly at the viewer. text above, mirroring the strips of the woman’s face, reads “the shifting / of the sap”]
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“healing”, art journal, 2018
matls: found/collected paper, copper gilding foil
[image: an art journal page made of strips of torn teal and blue-splattered paper in vertical and horizontal lines, along with squares of copper. the blue frames text outlined in red and orange, which reads “(Healing never tastes good initially.)”]
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“all the worlds bound”, art journal, 2018
matls: found/collected paper, magenta ink, pearl-ex pigment powder in blue-red, copper gilding foil
[images: an art journal page in purples and pinks. the center image depicts a deep-sea creature, a brightly colored jellyfish. ink, paper strips, and copper circles frame the large image. small text below the image reads only “all the worlds bound”]
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“the brave ones,” art journal, 2018
matls: found/collected paper (inc. section of latrec painting, bombay india ink in teal, pearl-ex pigment powder in true blue
[image: an art journal page made up of overlapping lines of textured paper. the background is a picture of chunks of green-blue substance, overlaid by paper like sandstone walls and three strips of a woman’s blue-toned face. ink frames the woman’s face, with simple printed text: “(There is hope in this for the brave ones.”]
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“no more of this,” art journal, 2018
matls: found/collected paper (inc. louise nevelson postcard), miniature hole-punch, yellow thread, gelly roll moonlight pen in silver
[image: an art journal page made up of a black and white photograph of a person spread out on the ground, naked, over an interestingly textured black background. the photograph has been split into three strips and is torn and wrinkled. the figure is framed by silver stippling and by hole-punches across the body with overlapping lines of yellow thread. text reads “there will be no more of this.”]
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“the shadows,” commission for beck, 2017
matls: found/collected paper, parchment paper, found/collected text, miniature bronze and gray brads, gold and silver beads, red and black thread
[image: a piece of collage work made up of black and white and sepia photographs, laid out in a blocky overlap over sheet music. two torso-shot photos of people are in the front, with messy pieces of black and red thread with gold beads dangling from uneven hole punches. text over, against parchment paper, reads, “you watch the shadows come and go,”]
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